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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by Claude_Shannon on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:03AM (#35411231)
You choose to have children, you don't choose to be born.
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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by mkoubaa on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:07AM (#35411284)
This is a popular yet awful take
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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by slothtrop on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:12AM (#35411369)
It's the truth.
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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by mkoubaa on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:26AM (#35411537)
In a narrowly pedantic way, sure. But that doesn't make this take useful or right
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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by emodendroket on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:29AM (#35411567)
Sure it does. I owe my daughter more than anybody else in the world. The legal system would seem to agree.
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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by mkoubaa on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:18PM (#35412809)
Generalizing this is harmful. It does not follow that things that we did not choose are not our responsibility.
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Re:The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your P... by dylan604 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @12:07PM (#35412035)
Not if you're in certain states, that choice is taken away from you.
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