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One could argue that every living human — all of us — are a product of generations of rape and unwanted children whose lives no one cared about, who survived to
by sssilver 4y ago
One could argue that every living human — all of us — are a product of generations of rape and unwanted children whose lives no one cared about, who survived to have their own. Civilized humans who enjoyed enforced women’s rights are a laughably short segment of all human history.
- ceejayoz 4y agoWe're also the product of generations of people dying prematurely of diseases like polio; our lives would be quite a bit different if infant/child mortality had been 0% for the last 100k years. Should we not wipe out polio because our ancestors couldn't?
- EForEndeavour 4y agoIf anything, reflecting on the stress and violence of our collective ancestors should only further strengthen the desire to do better by supporting things like "enforced women’s rights". Was that your point?
- sssilver 4y agoThe only point I have is that I’m incredibly happy to exist.