Friday, September 12, 2008

Roe v. Wade: An informed opinion

Conspiracy #3214

It has come to my attention that there are many people out there on the world wide web and beyond that have strong opinions about Roe v. Wade. Let me bring some of my informed insight to the table so that we can come to a consensus. It is first of all important to dissect the elements involved. I will start with the most simple of the three words in discussion. V. Okay so "V" isn't really a word and I think this is where the first problem comes. let's make it clear that "V" is a letter in the alphabet not a word in the English language. This should clarify the argument for about a third of the population. This brings me to the word wade. Wade is a word which is made up of multiple letters from the alphabet. There are four letters in the word. Two of the letters are vowels and two are consonants. This brings a certain balance that contradicts the word roe. Roe is made up of three letters thus creating an unbalance of vowels and consonants. Here is one of the many things that gets people upset about the Roe v. Wade debate. It is the balance of letters versus the unbalance of letters. It is very similar to the ideas of symmetrical versus asymmetrical. This is one area that people like to make moral judgments. I do not believe that there is a moral answer one way or the other when it comes to the number of letters a word has in it. I think the only real solution is a compromise between the two camps. We must also remember that beyond all of the semantical arguments about letters and words there are very real situations where the question of roe or wade has pretty obvious conclusions. If you are about to cross a shallow stream or a large puddle, wading would be the obvious choice. On the other hand if you are traveling down a river or across a large lake, you will want to roe, roe, roe your boat. So sometimes you roe and sometimes you wade. Let us never choose one or the other without knowing what type of water we are trying to traverse. You may now thank me, Les B. Starkley, for bringing some much needed light to a subject that has been made more complex than it need be.

1 comment:

tschoenfeld said...

Swing and a miss.

I don't mean to be a Negative Nelly but all you have to do to re-balance the consonants vowels thing is move the "v" from in between Roe and Wade and add it to Roe. Roev. It may not make sense as a word but it does make two four letter words with two consonants and two vowels each.

Balance.

Brilliance.

Consider this and continue slopping truth like a hot tub in the back of a limo on the Las Vegas Strip during rush hour.

Moe B. S.