I'm all for not judging books by their covers, but sometimes the cover represents the contents perfectly. Just look at this face, it's made of 100% triple-distilled prick; you can just tell. And the victim, student Anuj Bidve - it is obvious at a glance how much of a better person he is. I mean that in the completely tangible and objective metric of what joy he would have brought to those around him. The total worth of a gang member who introduces himself in court on a murder charge using a fake name he would likely fail to spell? I'm not sure it's detectable with current technology.
All human life may start with equal value but there are some very fast ways to trash it. Most factors that led to what will surely be this man's most notable act were probably outside of his control - we are all genetic experiments; our ingredients are not our choice, nor are our upbringings. In this case, a switch has clearly been flipped the wrong way from the start, but environment has a hand to play as well. It's clear that it would have been more satisfactory for everyone had this person stayed a sperm, but would any of the other sperms have faired any better?
New Year detox is futile
So the extremely common practice of a month off the tipple - usually with the result of knowing the horror that is a month without alcohol and then promising to never, ever put such a limitation on oneself again - doesn't do you any good. Will this news cause, in general, a more careful drinking public who will not do it to excess quite as often? Or will it remove the one time of year that people who were drinking enough that they needed to convince themselves they could totally do a whole 31 days without it weren't drinking to excess? Hang on, 31 days is a lot, let's call it 4 weeks. Do Sundays count?
Just kidding.
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