The South Korean government has announced that it has seized 17,500 capsules that were smuggled into the country. The smugglers thought they were bringing in an herbal cure-all and sexual stimulant.
What they were actually smuggling in were capsules filled with the powdered remains of infants and aborted fetuses.
I’ll give you a moment to get that image out of your mind. Good luck.
When I first read this, all I could feel was revulsion and outrage, and I’m going to try to keep that under control in this. Make no mistake, I am outraged and disgusted by this, but I’ll do my best to keep my cool.
Deep breath…. Here we go….
Are you bloody kidding me? What is wrong with people? Do they really not see something wrong with ingesting the remains of dead children to keep lead in their pencils? It’s not enough that we have to worry about tigers and rhinos disappearing because some sick bastards think that if they eat parts of these animals they’ll turn into a sexual powerhouse, now we have to worry that those herbal remedies some people take for their health are actually Soylent Veal?
I’m a pretty easy going person, or at least I try to be. I believe in the goodness of all people and that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. But the conversation with the manufacturers, smugglers, and consumers of this abomination against every value system I can think of should go like this:
Question: Did you make this stuff?
Answer: Yes
Bang
Question: Did you know what you were smuggling?
Answer: Yes
Bang
Question: Did you know what those capsules you bought and were swallowing contained?
Answer: Yes
Bang
No ceremony, no appeal, no sympathy, no excuses. If you in any way knowingly supported the use of dead babies to create vitamins, you have pretty much burned your membership card in the human race, and should be treated like the mad dog who ate the baby.
If they answer “No” to these questions, I’m all for a Scarlet Letter type punishment. Something like a tattoo on their forehead that says “I ate dead babies!”.
Like I said, I’m easy going. But there are some taboos that even I can’t see breaking and being allowed to stay in the crowd around the campfire.
DaddyBear’s Den 
Old NFO
/ May 7, 2012I can only concur with your options… sigh…
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julie
/ May 8, 2012I know there was a reason i didn’t click on the headline to read the article on the local news site…
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pclemmer
/ May 9, 2012Can’t disagree with your treatment of the ones that knew what they were making, smuggling, or taking. But imagine finding out that the cure-all herbal remedy that you thought was root of wonder-plant is… {shudder} I’m suddenly glad that my friend that has a Doctor of Oriental Medicine practice actually grinds and encapsulates her own stuff, so she knows what it is and how fresh it is.
I think if you told me I had been taking that, you wouldn’t have to worry about a bullet, I’d be throwing up every time I thought about it, and slowly die of dehydration / starvation.
Just when I think the human race is as bad as it’s going to get…
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