Halla-aho would get along fine with Steve Bannon if he could tolerate Bannon's alcohol use. To describe how humane a person he is I present
a blog post he wrote:
The only measurable and thus inarguably existing value of a human being is the instrumental value of an individual. Individuals can be put in a value hierarchy according to how much making their abilities or know-how unavailable to the community would harm the community. A farmer, a rancher and a construction engineer are thus more valuable than others because the community would starve and freeze without them. On the other hand, they would survive even if all the other know-how would be removed. A weapon using individual is the second most valuable because he protects the food storage from beasts and enemies and prevents the members of the community from following their most primitive instincts and destroying each other.
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Although one must admit that behavioral sciences might make us less eager to kill each other. On the other hand, waging wars increases in-group cohesion and almost always leads into technological breakthroughs.
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Until someone convinces me that everyone is equal this leads me to believe that difference is inequality and everyone is inequal. Unlike egalitarists imagine inequality will not lead into throwing the less valuable ones to the gas chamber unless there is other good reason for it. I think I am more valuable than a mouse carcass on a forest path but I will not still rip the carcass into pieces. I think the world is a nicer place if there is art (I am not so sure about religions and a parliament) and linguistics. But if the boat starts leaking I think it is obvious that the first to be thrown overboard is the least valuable cargo, i.e. artists and linguists.
I translated the term "ihmisarvo" literally as the value (or worth) of a human being since the corresponding legal term in English language is human dignity and it doesn't really match the point he is making.
Edit 3:
Halla-aho was interviewed by YLE.- I do not take back what I have said. I have written different things in different situations in life, I was not able to foresee my political future. When circumstances change, style must change accordingly, Halla-aho says.
So, how about... Oh.
Halla-aho thinks everyone has equal human value.
Fuck you.
Edit:
Behold, the new first and second vice chairmen of the party:
"It just is so that humans are not animals and have never been animals. It is an utterly impossible theory that animals or an animal could become a human given enough time."
"No, I don't. [believe in evolution] How does it go, by the way? Is it something that comes... someone has made some match bomb in space?"
Edit 2:
Holy shit.
It seems the government is going to a panic mode. The Prime Minister cancelled his participation in the meeting taking place in the President's official summer residence Kultaranta. The people present include the EU High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller so this is kind of a big deal. He is instead meeting the party insiders about the options of forming a new government without the Finns. He has also discussed this with the representatives of other parties and according to the sources of the piece in TS the preliminary options are:
1. Swedish Folk Party and Christian Democrats replace The Finns and two or three Finns members defect their party to join one of the new coalition parties. These members have already discussed their potential defection with their colleagues. SFP is very liberal but also economically very right wing while the Christian Democrats are religious fundies but with more social compassion than The Finns crowd.
2. Social Democratic Party or maybe even the Green Party replaces the Finns. The only definitely excluded party is The Left Alliance since their chairwoman Li Anderson demanded a new parliamentary election when visiting Kultaranta. For now, SDP and Greens are refusing but they will be contacted again unless the Center and National Coalition parties come to an unexpected agreement with Halla-aho.
The government is in serious problems with their health care and social services reform since it seems to be badly stuck in the Parliament's Constitutional Committee. This has been a central issue for the government and its fate is already causing political pressure. The new direction of The Finns is probably enough to cause the card house to collapse.
President Niinistö is saying that the first thing would be for the government to present their resignation to him and then - probably on Tuesday - the official negotiations for a new coalition would start. If these negotiations fail then the only option left would be a new parliamentary election.
Unless the direction the political winds are blowing changes dramatically the new elections would be catastrophic for The Finns. The National Coalition is leading in the polls right now so there would probably not be a huge leap to the left overall but the result couldn't be worse than the complete right wing dominance we have right now in the government.
Wow.