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Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries. The social contract has not been com

Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries. The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.

anotherhue 3y ago
There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.
- romafirst3 3y ago
  Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.
  - Fraterkes 3y ago
    If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?
    - romafirst3 3y ago
      The article title is just a hyperbolic statement about something. Blocking the path to a family is just another hyperbolic statement that is patently untrue. But in all seriousness in response to your question, why respond at all, the answer I would argue is it is super important to respond. If you don't respond you leave exaggerated statements unchallenged and then people just ingest them without using any critical thinking. There are tons of examples of it happening in the US news media and it does change people's perspectives of what is happening in the world. If left unchallenged a casual reader would just assume that the sky was falling down in Ireland which couldnt' be further from the truth.
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      - Fraterkes 3y ago
        Not to be unkind, but that is a very high-minded justification for what was essentially a one-line joke comment.
        romafirst3 3y ago
        Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.
        Fraterkes 3y ago
        Tell me then, funny man: what's two times zero?
        romafirst3 3y ago
        You asked me why I insisted on responding, I told you why I responded. To not allow exaggerated nonsense to just exist unchallenged. I used humor in my response. My use of a joke highlighted the absurdity and overblown nature of the original commenters statement and made a reader think exactly what does someone mean by "path to having a family". In actual fact, other people on this page are claiming it's too easy to have a family in Ireland what with all the free housing and welfare. So I'm pointing out the absurdity of the position, especially when it's just blasted out as fact without anything to back it up.

Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries. The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.

anotherhue 3y ago

There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.

romafirst3 3y ago
Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.
- Fraterkes 3y ago
  If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?
  - romafirst3 3y ago
    The article title is just a hyperbolic statement about something. Blocking the path to a family is just another hyperbolic statement that is patently untrue. But in all seriousness in response to your question, why respond at all, the answer I would argue is it is super important to respond. If you don't respond you leave exaggerated statements unchallenged and then people just ingest them without using any critical thinking. There are tons of examples of it happening in the US news media and it does change people's perspectives of what is happening in the world. If left unchallenged a casual reader would just assume that the sky was falling down in Ireland which couldnt' be further from the truth.
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    - Fraterkes 3y ago
      Not to be unkind, but that is a very high-minded justification for what was essentially a one-line joke comment.
      - romafirst3 3y ago
        Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.
        Fraterkes 3y ago
        Tell me then, funny man: what's two times zero?
        romafirst3 3y ago
        You asked me why I insisted on responding, I told you why I responded. To not allow exaggerated nonsense to just exist unchallenged. I used humor in my response. My use of a joke highlighted the absurdity and overblown nature of the original commenters statement and made a reader think exactly what does someone mean by "path to having a family". In actual fact, other people on this page are claiming it's too easy to have a family in Ireland what with all the free housing and welfare. So I'm pointing out the absurdity of the position, especially when it's just blasted out as fact without anything to back it up.