What, Exactly, Is Wrong With Murder?
I recently had the opportunity to watch an eye opening interview with retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding, posted on the Epoch Times, discussing the Chinese Communist Party (Thanks, RA). The starting point of the interview was General Spalding’s new book, “War Without Rules,” (available through Amazon). General Spalding is an expert on the Chinese Communist Party and has and has been a member of the National Security Council and an advisor on China to President Trump.
In the interview, General Spalding emphasizes something that many Americans, I suspect, don’t often see, don’t understand, and don’t believe: members of the Chinese Communist Party simply DON’T THINK LIKE WE DO.
The different world view, held by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and, perhaps, by substantial numbers of non CCP Chinese as well, results in astonishing differences in moral practice. Let’s discuss some of them.
On April 4th, 2022, The American Journal of Transplantation (a non political medical periodical) published an article in which the authors, Matthew P. Robertson and Jacob Lavee, reviewed more than 120,000 Chinese-language publications and identified 71 papers where transplant doctors, by their own admission, did not confirm donor brain death before removing organs whose absence would be fatal. In essence, by their own accounting, these doctors murdered prisoners to obtain transplantable organs for their own transplantation programs. What makes this even more astonishing is that the prisoners involved were not themselves murderers, rapists or other violent offenders; many were PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE. Further investigation revealed that many of the unwilling donors were members of the Falun Gong religion. Falun Gong teaches truthfulness, compassion, tolerance and meditation, practices which are considered subversive, apparently, by the CCP. So, the question becomes, “what, exactly, is wrong with murder?” From the CCP point of view, murderous organ procurement solves 2 problems at once:
1) “We’ve got a surplus of annoying and subversive religious people, and
2) We need organs that are in short supply.
So, let’s execute the believers and make good use of their organs! TWO problems solved! It’s a win/win!”
Let’s now look at a different CCP practice that is almost as objectionable as the organ procurement procedure discussed above: concentration camps. According to Wikipedia: “As of 2020, it was estimated that Chinese authorities may have detained up to 1.8 million people, mostly Uyghurs but also including Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic Turkic Muslims, Christians, as well as some foreign citizens including Kazakhstanis, in these secretive internment camps located throughout the region.” Incidentally, China, hasn’t really denied this practice, but, disingenuously, has described the concentration camps as “centers for JOB RETRAINING!” So, what’s wrong with that? Again from the CCP perspective, we’ve got millions of stubborn Muslims who do not accept doctrinaire Marxist atheism, so “let’s ROUND EM’ UP! And let’s keep ‘em there until they come around to our modern point of view… Oh, and we might have to execute the really recalcitrant ones from time to time.”
Another Chinese practice worth looking at is their “zero tolerance” policy on free speech. China has nothing even vaguely resembling the United States Constitution’s First Amendment Bill of Rights. All rights in China belong to the CCP. As the people of Hong Kong have learned during their brief romance with democracy, speaking out could get you arrested (or worse). From the CCP perspective: “We have a problem with thousands of silly idealists that are interfering with the great machine of Chinese progress. Let’s ROUND EM’ UP!” What’s wrong with that?”
And on what some might consider a more trivial matter (but I consider it, actually, to be profound) is the astonishing episode, at the Beijing Olympics, when the CCP had the Chinese National Anthem sung in private by one young girl and lip synced in public by another. They felt that the girl that actually sung the anthem WASN’T PRETTY ENOUGH! From the CCP’s point of view: “we want to showcase the best singer AND the most beautiful girl, so let’s have the most beautiful one lip sync the song and have the best of both! It’s a win/win? What’s wrong with that?”
Well, dear readers, what, exactly IS wrong with all of the above? In ALL of these terrible practices, the common denominator is a profound lack of appreciation for the value of every single life.
The organ procurers look at the hapless prisoners as having no intrinsic value, and they become, therefore, merely “Petri dishes” for growing organs.
Likewise, the Uyghurs sent to concentration camps have no value what-so-ever, unless they can be “re-educated” and become good little atheist apparatchiks.
The zero tolerance for free speech likewise also revolves around the matter of personal value. Since the Hong Kong protestors have no intrinsic worth, they have no “right to free speech.”
And lastly, the actual singer of the Chinese Anthem has no value as a PERSON in her own right, but only as a prop supporting Chinese hegemony; so, because she isn’t pretty, she can be kept cloistered and away from public view.
So, dear readers, why do all of the above CCP practices seem repulsive to us, but quite acceptable and, even, NORMAL to the CCP and, perhaps, many rank and file Chinese as well? I believe that it simply is because China lacks the Judeo-Christian ethos that affirms the value of human life.
And, as America becomes increasingly atheistic, with creeping totalitarianism to boot, it behoves us to go back to our Judeo-Christian roots and recognize the value of EVERY human life and reaffirm what, indeed, is wrong with murder.
The Spalding interview can be found through the following link:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/part-1-gen-robert-spalding-inside-the-chinese-regimes-strategy-to-dominate-the-world-without-firing-a-single-shot_4432573.html
The transplantation procurement article can be accessed through:
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16969
Thank you This is the most eye- opening post. People just do not know what is happening.