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Narrowly focusing on the potential complications of childbirth is missing the bigger picture. Taking pregnancy out of the human experience significantly changes
by hackinthebochs 3y ago
Narrowly focusing on the potential complications of childbirth is missing the bigger picture. Taking pregnancy out of the human experience significantly changes the human experience. Such a change is not without consequences and shouldn't be done lightly, and certainly not due to "burdens and risks".
- lotsofpulp 3y agoEverything humans do is due to “burdens and risks”, with the explicit goal of changing the human experience. Without progress, the human experience involves a ton of maternal and infant mortality. And obviously everything has consequences, good and bad. These are not reasons to freeze the process of birthing a child to a specific point in time.
- hackinthebochs 3y agoThere's a difference between incidental experiences and features that are definitive of what it means to be human. The process of pregnancy is definitive, infant mortality is not. Just because we have eliminated one class of experiences to good effect does not commit us to an unquestioning march of "progress".
- remarkEon 3y agoThe issue is that a lot of people, primarily technologists in my estimation, just don't like the human experience all that much. They'd like to do away with it as much as possible and replace it with a sanitized and mechanical experience instead.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThese are arbitrary distinctions. Not too long ago, malnutrition, hunger, and losing a few young family members to infections was “definitive” too.