On Celebrities : Why They're Worth More Than You And Not Worth As Much As You Think -- Darian Mograine

All too often I find myself encountering the most ridiculously cliché articles on how “people feel celebrities are worth more than normal people.” I mean, it got me so tired that in response to one of these articles after a while I didn’t even constructively criticize; I resorted to commenting with a “cliché checklist.” 

There’s a fundamental disconnect between the attention the media gives celebrities, and the attention most people give them. To say that “…if Kim Kardashian and a normal girl were both kidnapped on the same day, only Kim would get attention for it” is wholly inaccurate and distrusting of people. Most normal people would equally recognize anyone over a popular celebrity, realizing simply that they could be in their place too, and that their life is equally valuable to theirs. Sure, the fans of the celebrity may support them more, and the media’s out to make a profit so following the more profitable (celebrity) story is a given, but this doesn’t mean we place different value on them as people. It doesn’t reflect how people actually feel.

Furthermore, they are worth more than you. What have you done with your life? What are you going to be doing? Have celebrities not contributed immensely to society by generally entertaining and increasing societal happiness in a definite, measurable way? 

They’ve earned their worth just as much as you’ve assumed it; don’t give them so much credit, but remember, they still get more credit than you. 

Abortion: To Be Or Not To Be -- Darian Mograine

To some, abortion may seem like nothing more than the ending of potential human lives. Others (like myself) would argue it’s so much more than that though. Women deserve the right to abort for reason both in the realm of having unwanted children being a bad idea, and in it not truly being inherently wrong. Unsupportable children suffer a life of disadvantage; face neglected solitude, and generally unfavorable life circumstance. Furthermore, unwanted children of all calibers are susceptible to all of the above. Would you like to be paying to support other people’s children that you forced them to go through with having?

With regards to abortion being wrong insofar as you are ‘ending a life’ I’d say you’re straight up wrong. You’d have no problem ending the life of peskier animals or critters who function on a level similarly simply to unborn babies. You’d also need to reevaluate your interest in the already living. Why are so many against abortion but all for the death penalty? Is the ending of old life more acceptable than new? Clearly there’s some hypocrisy here. What of women who are raped, too?  You propose that it would be unacceptable to allow the victim to not have their rapist’s baby? It’s up to the one having the child what she wants to do with her body.

It’s no so straightforward that your ineffective and almost embarrassingly recycled rhetoric can address explore the complexity of an issue like this. It takes more than “save the children!!!!!” to sway an intellectual.