"Why I don't regret my abortion"

"Why I don't regret my abortion" May 17, 2017 11:04:02 GMT

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Post by cupcakes on May 17, 2017 11:04:02 GMT

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@miccee said: They're not mutually exclusive, it is simply that people who enjoy their lives typically lack reasons for ending their life. But it's not unheard of for someone to resolve to commit suicide when they reach their 80th birthday; not because they aren't enjoying life but because they don't want to experience the degradations of extreme old age. Or an antinatalist might be happy with their own life, but not want to tacitly support the endeavour of perpetuating the species by remaining alive.

You're still playing semantical games. "Enjoying ones life" is an overarching theme; one isn't when one wants to die yet still gets some pleasure from seeing a daisy pop out through the snow. People resolve to die by their 80th birthday because they are already projecting magnified misery by that date. Your own phrase explained it beautifully for you "degradations of extreme old age". They're not avoiding the enjoyment of those degradations. If an "antinatalist" wants not just to die personally, but also hopes for the species to be not just reformed but wiped out, then that antinatalist is gripped with some deep and abiding dissatisfaction, and likely a not small portion of hate. Not the badge of "enjoying life".

"Enjoying ones life" and "wishing to die" are wholly and irretrievable mutually exclusive regardless of any paragraphs of tommyrot heaped upon it. One has to either have an overwhelming dislike or be a strikingly irrational person.

It's an imposition of the parents' values and what they deem to be worth the risks. And in cases where children are born with severe disabilities which causes them to be in constant pain and have no chance of independence, then that is a very serious penalty that the child will have to pay for their parents' selfishness. Or anyone else who just happens not to share the mindset that life is always worth the risks.

Only in the minds of those that use words like "holocaust" for the like of trick-or-treat hosters inflicting sugar upon the unwitting. Or who continually try to inject edge cases which may demand specialized handling when their arguments in the main are so morbidly comically crashing an burning.

The base is both that having the choice is manifold superior to never having it, and also that the vast majority fervently desire to continue living for the bulk of their lives, and certainly for the duration of them enjoying it.

I think serializing this novel would be more enjoyable. I'll get to further paras at my leisure.

Morally I would be fine with post-birth abortions, but I realise that this would probably be too radical to ever be implemented.