You know what argument I really hate?
Nov. 22nd, 2005 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
The one about how "Aren't you glad your parents chose life?", like that's going to make me feel bad and hate abortions. Mal posted lately a list of mostly pathetic arguments against tubal ligation, one of which was "Were you a whoops baby?" (same concept).
Y'know what? My grandparents met after the Second World War. They wouldn't've met at all if it weren't for the war. Does this mean I should be grateful that so many people suffered, because it enabled my eventual birth?
My nieces are, as I'm sure many of you know, half black. Their ancestors would never have met if it weren't for slavery. They would've all lived in their separate parts of Africa, and 'dul would never have existed, and even if he somehow had, he would not have found a way to meet Jenn. Surely we can all see how absurd it would be to have stickers saying "Aren't you glad your ancestors were enslaved?", right? (Please say I'm right!)
There are any number of ways people could not have been born. Nobody's telling people they need to be glad their parents fucked, and therefore they should stop being virgins as quickly as possible, are they?
Of course not. So why say that people shouldn't get sterilized because of the chance of an accidental pregnancy? I can at least understand using that argument for abortion, because of the whole "life begins at conception" idea (which I profoundly disagree with, at least in the way it's meant. I'm not a vegetarian. I have no qualms about stopping "a beating heart". It's sentience I'm concerned with).
More proof that most of humanity is a bit dumb. Alas and alack.
Y'know what? My grandparents met after the Second World War. They wouldn't've met at all if it weren't for the war. Does this mean I should be grateful that so many people suffered, because it enabled my eventual birth?
My nieces are, as I'm sure many of you know, half black. Their ancestors would never have met if it weren't for slavery. They would've all lived in their separate parts of Africa, and 'dul would never have existed, and even if he somehow had, he would not have found a way to meet Jenn. Surely we can all see how absurd it would be to have stickers saying "Aren't you glad your ancestors were enslaved?", right? (Please say I'm right!)
There are any number of ways people could not have been born. Nobody's telling people they need to be glad their parents fucked, and therefore they should stop being virgins as quickly as possible, are they?
Of course not. So why say that people shouldn't get sterilized because of the chance of an accidental pregnancy? I can at least understand using that argument for abortion, because of the whole "life begins at conception" idea (which I profoundly disagree with, at least in the way it's meant. I'm not a vegetarian. I have no qualms about stopping "a beating heart". It's sentience I'm concerned with).
More proof that most of humanity is a bit dumb. Alas and alack.
