| It's paradoxical, really. When there were far fewer humans, when each person was of greater value by virtue of their scarcity, infanticide was practiced in many cultures. Until recently many cultures still allowed killing a female child if male children were valued more highly. And now that we're becoming a more common commodity, we've decided children are to be spared infanticide for merely cultural reasons.
Personally, I don't really have an opinion. I have no children of my own to tempt me to murder, and I certainly wouldn't kill anyone else's child. I haven't the right. |