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I wasn't responding to your original point, but to the comment I actually responded to. Reproduction is not a choice if some of us must do it. Like, I don't ha
by Retra 12y ago
I wasn't responding to your original point, but to the comment I actually responded to. Reproduction is not a choice if some of us must do it.
Like, I don't have to drink water, I can just eat meat and get my water from that. But it would be absurd to suggest that "drinking water is a choice" because there are alternatives that I could personally take.
This is a Hobson's Choice: a choice between one option. You could wrangle that kind of argument into justification for anything! Slavery: "You chose to be a slave because you didn't run away." Rape: "You chose to get raped because you didn't stay inside." Pregnancy: "You chose to get pregnant because nobody actively forced you to have a baby."
Never-mind any notion of practicality. Forget about the fact that these things literally need to happen. It's a choice because you don't agree with the politics.
- jobposter1234 12y agoI feel you are collapsing societal-scope with individual-scope. Individuals choose whether or not to get pregnant when a man ejaculates inside a woman without protection. If you wish to do that, and bear the fetus to term, I do not wish to pay for your decision. Individuals should bear the burden of their own decisions, not me.
- Retra 12y agoEveryone else already bears the burden of your decisions. You don't get to determine which burdens you bear, only how you choose to bear them.