This is not about a personal story
You have been telling a personal story all the way through this subthread.
Can we take it you're now withdrawing it?
Frankly, I don't know why you felt you needed to do it. Having lurked here for a long time, I believe the people on this blog are more than fair in giving others the freedom to state their positions, and they've been painstakingly civil to you as they argue their own. (And before you start listing the instances of dire rudeness from others, I'm not interested). Basically, you've wasted an opportunity to present your side of the issue by using subterfuge and insulting language when you could have had a pleasant, if heated, exchange. It's too bad.
A parting word of advice: Anecdotal observations are not considered statistically valid. Expect to be challenged every time you use it to "prove" a point.
Again with presenting anecdotal evidence as fact. Sigh.
Try googling "child psychology adoption."
BJ, you use the term "gotcha" to anyone who has presented evidence countering your claims. Does this mean you admit that you have been "gotten?"
Also, since I haven't stated my opinion on the issue at all (apologies again for being off topic), on what basis do you assume my "moral hypocrisy?"
apologies again for being off topic
I dear say!
Otoh, considering the topic is really the death penalty you were by far not the first :-)
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Like I said before I believe that one cannot morally take another's life unless that life is endangering yours.
My apologies to everyone for the disruption - I've seen this pattern so many times, I just had to say something.
Troll-rated for the continued assertion that iamcoyote is making up a story.
Progressive thinking is about thinking outside the box.
You started this discussion with:
Why do the very same people who passionately oppose the death penalty have no problem supporting the right of a woman to abort an unborn child for any reason and at any stage?
The conservative religious movement in America (and elsewhere) has been churning this line out for three decades now. It's interesting to see you consider it "progressive" and "outside the box".
You came up with that all by yourself or did you look it up in your little book of "talking points." Try coming up with original thoughts of your own rather than repeating old lines.
Project much? You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
And of course YOU know what all adoptive people feel - what a time-waster. Yes, I shouldn't have wasted time on you. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
