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You're not the only one; there are a great many people who have the same opinion. Not that you aren't entitled to your opinions, and this one in particular, but
by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
You're not the only one; there are a great many people who have the same opinion. Not that you aren't entitled to your opinions, and this one in particular, but the fact is the particular opinion you've expressed is filled with assumptions and implicit assertions that aren't justified by any empirical data or analytical thought.
- Kenji 12y ago"the particular opinion you've expressed is filled with assumptions and implicit assertions that aren't justified by any empirical data or analytical thought." Do you mind explaining what you mean in particular? It sounds rather vague.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoSure. Your opinion includes implicit assertions regarding all the things that go into "sorting out education and jobs". In particular, the core assertion is that it's possible to do so and that it is something that's feasible or a reasonable expectation in all cases (hint: it's neither, in some cases and in particular cases involving poverty and families on the lower end of the income spectrum). You're implicitly asserting, almost to the point of making it tautological, that people who aren't born into privilege ought not have children. The assumptions are the usual assumptions born of such thinking (e.g. that the poor or the uneducated are incapable of sorting out their own lives, much less of "properly" raising children).