Eggs Fоr Sale - Hatred of Bеаυty Exаmplе #374,998,007

By now most of you have probably heard of the website which is auctioning off the egg cells of beautiful young female fashion models. It's called Rоn's Angеl's and it's run by fashion photographer and video director Rоn Hаrrіs, creator of The 20-Mіnυtе Wоrkоυt.

Nowhere in recent memory has hatred of female beauty - or any other human value - been more openly expressed than in the public and professional reaction to this site.

Here are some disturbing examples:

Infertility specialists have expressed outright disdain for the Rоn's Angеls website. Apparently they are 'concerned' about the implications of attaching a price tag to human eggs. The eggs on the Rоn's Angеls website go for anywhere from $15,000-$150,000 depending on the girl. Yet, these are not the only women selling their eggs. According to ABC News, average women are willing to sell their eggs to these specialists for anywhere from $2000 to $5000. Yet according to the following chart on the ABC News website, the average price to prospective egg purchasers for this service is $14,000 to $15,000!

Infertility specialists have a problem attaching a price tag to donated eggs, but only too obvioulsy they have no problem with attaching an exorbitant price tag to merely obtaining these eggs for their clients, nor with making a handy $10,000 profit to boot! They've tried to make it sound like there's an ethical problem with selling eggs, when in reality they simply don't want their expenses to go up! What are they counting on for us to miss this little fact? Our shared hatred of female beauty.

Apparently, this stuff has been going on quietly at egg brokerages for years. According to ABC News correspondant Jаmі Flоyd The match game has become a multimillion dollar business. Matches once made only by fertility clinics are now handled more and more by agencies, brokering eggs to infertile couples. As the fertility business has boomed, so has the supply of women willing to sell their eggs for between $2,000 and $5,000 or more. Options [NATIONAL FERTILITY REGISTRY] gets over 200 calls from prospective donors every day. [Click here for source.]

It seems people don't really have a huge problem with average women selling their eggs. But let a beautiful woman try it and WHAMMO!, suddenly there are 'moral' and 'ethical' questions to be answered. There are cries of genetic engineering and eugenics. There are dire predictions of future disasters of Hitlerian proportions, attempts to blacken people's desire for a perfect child by association, when in fact it wasn't Hitler's desire for a perfect child - if ever he had such a desire - that made him evil but the fact that he killed millions of innocent people! Right?

Not according to the latest ABC poll:

If you think I'm jumping to conclusions here, ask yourself why Hitler is always raised as the single most evil man of the last millenium. Compared to other mass murderers like Stalin and Pоl Pоt he's just a piker.

Where does this intense fear of genetic engineering come from?

In fact, there is no basis in reality for any fear of genetic engineering. It is the same irrational fear exhibited by the general public when automobiles or anaesthesia first appeared, or when any new science or radical technology is introduced. Such 'ethical quandries' and predictions of doom and gloom have always accompanied the greatest gifts of man's invention, in spite of the fact that doom and gloom never does come.

In fact, genetic engineering has been around as long as man himself, and believe it or not we are all practitioners of it. What else are we doing when we choose one prospective mate over another but prefering good genes over bad? What else are we doing but deciding which genes go where - intentionally or not - when we adopt this child over that one? No, it can't be genetic engineering so many people are afraid of.

Perhaps then it's technology itself we find so frightening. And yet, even today, nothing has really changed in the nature of genetic engineering. We still want the best physical and character traits for our children. It's just that now science is offering us more ways to get them. Technology is offering us new ways of insuring our children get the best advantages possible to them. We welcome any vaccine which promises to keep our children healthy, yet we despise choosing a beautiful woman for our children's egg donor?

Something's not right.

Let's look more closely at one of Rоn's Angеls to see what it is.

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[model 20] Age 20 34C 24 35 5'.6" Weight 125 Mother is 40 Grandmother is 59 Irish/American Mіnіmυm Bіd: $90,000 Closing: 1/15/2000

Bid:  $90,000

I am a twenty year old university student, with a desire to assist a loving family in the miracle of childbirth. My passion is academics. I am a Physics and Math major with a 4.0 G.P.A.. I also enjoy musical composition on my guitar, as well as classical literature and politics. I am very intelligent, with an I.Q. that has been tested between 160 and 170. I began reading at the age of three, and taught myself some calculus at age seven. (My parents are very proud of this, and never fail to mention it when I bring friends home to dinner.) I speak semi-fluent Portuguese, a little Russian, and some Urdu. I graduated high school at the age of sixteen, 98th percentile in the state. I played soccer, softball, and tennis, and I was satisfactory at ballet. I have modeled for local companies and small agencies, but modeling is not a career interest. My goal is to graduate with a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT or Caltech. I do not smoke or do drugs. I have had no major health problems, nor do any run in my family. I have no children. I plan to wait until I am married, perhaps in my late twenties, early thirties. I am proud of the fact that I have no regrets in my life. I believe in truthfulness above all, and that has afforded me few enemies. Overall I am a well adjusted, respected young woman with a bright future.

There you have it. It's not fear of technology or genetic engineering which inspires people to attack Rоn's Angеls - these girls are not only fashion models, they are models of human womanhood. They seem to possess every human value anyone could ever want in a person: they're smart, beautiful, intelligent, talented, career-minded, family-oriented, moral, independent, courageous and *sigh* nice.

Believe it or not, this is precisely what their detractors hate most about Rоn's Angеls. What else could it be? After all, if it's not 'putting a price on reproduction', or fear of genetics or technology, what's left to explain their animosity towards these lovely women?

For shame. Rоn's Angеls possess almost every conceivable human value, so when you hate them, you're hating human values, regardless of whether or not you bothered to look at their bio's. In fact, what reason could there be not to look, except that they are being hailed as beautiful and you have already made up your mind?

There have always been great numbers of people in any society who hate values precisely because they are values, people who respond to the sight of something or someone good with nothing but disgust. They pretend they are deeply moral people, inspired only by concern for their fellow men, yet their dark secret is that the complete opposite is true - they are vile creatures which crawl through their days motivated solely by the desire to remove smiles from people's faces. Scarier still is the fact that such people are becoming so common that they no longer feel the need to keep their hatred of values a secret, but instead proclaim it openly.

Check out this quote from Pаυl Wоlpе, a bioethicist interviewed by ABC News for their story on biological engineering for the best example anyone could hope for.

Right from their own mouths: it is not the wretched, malformed, gnarled-hearted creature these people fear. Nor is it the desire to bring such a being into creation which they regard as unethical. Rather, it is the flawless one - the glowing, eager, brilliant, beautiful human being which these people fear and despise above all, and those like Rоn's Angеls - people who want to help create 'perfect' babies - whom they call 'unethical'.

It's hatred of beauty which blinds people - or worse, inspires people - to attacks on human values. And to measure for yourself how common this hatred is, consider that in the media maelstrom of overtly condemnatory expressions of disdain and disgust which followed the site's opening, there was not one single word of praise for Rоn Hаrrіs or the girls who have made someone's dream of a child come true.

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