Dr. J. Budziszewski

They think it's all about pleasure or it's all about, you know, I love each other in the sense of we like being together or something like that.

And, of course, we can divorce.

There are no children involved.

Da-da-da-da-da-da.

One movement among young marrieds is called the child-free movement.

It means we aren't going to have children now or ever because it will cut into our lifestyle.

And we will be, they think, better persons and more virtuous because they will be able to give all our time to all kinds of good works.

Now, that's not... That is so...

It's not just thinking, I may have sex before marriage.

Much more is coming along with this.

The society hasn't abandoned that, and all this transgender stuff is just one of the more odd, one of the more extreme, one of the more obviously loony outgrowths of that.

One of the points I make in the book is, one of the reasons lunacy can metastasize and spread like a cancer

is that many of us who might call ourselves moderate, for instance, what we mean is that we're only moderately lunatic.

Or many of us who might call ourselves conservative mean, I want to conserve the lunacies that I've already swallowed.

I just don't want to take any new ones on board.

And we want to eat the poisoned apple, but not have the poison.

We want to have the premises, but not the conclusion.

Well, people, I made that point about abortion once.

I said in an article I'd submitted to a magazine, I said, you know, the premises that justify abortion also justify infanticide.

And my editor said, yes, they do.