someone's comment above was very much on topic - or do you deny that sexual intercourse requires two people, and that both are responsible for it to happen or not?
The difference with pregnancy and abortion is that it will affect one person a lot more than the other, so the decision has to be assymetric there. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Not that I disagree with someone's sentiment (and any comment quoting Monty Python is a-ok in my book), but I see why one would react in that way... "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
And, as someone points out, apparently no thought whatsoever to his father's role. Pointing out that we're all here because our parents didn't use contraception is entirely on point. Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
The story is very true and was repeated to us by his teacher who was taken aback by his very thought through comment at such a young age. I had never thought much about the topic until I heard this and then questioned my own values concerning the sanctity of life: death penalties and abortion.
The birth mother was only about 16 and not able to make her own decision, so she relied on her mother who believed that the child should be allowed to live and the right couple selected for adoption.
Do you think it's ok for your son to believe his birth mother would have gladly aborted him if not for the intervention of others? What would your reaction have been if he'd said he was relieved his mother didn't leave him in a dumpster? Would you have said, yeah, you're mighty lucky that's illegal or she might have?
Perhaps you should try to be more wise than a fifth grader and reassure him that his birth mother probably loves him and has his best interests at heart, instead of reinforcing his fears that she'd have wiped him out of existence if given the chance. You and his teacher should be ashamed of yourselves. Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
you are the media you consume.
Snowflake children is a term used by organizations that promote the adoption of embryos left over from in vitro fertilization to describe children that result, where the children's parents were not the original cell donors.... President George W. Bush has made public appearances together with snowflake children while speaking about his support for adult stem cell research and his opposition to embryonic stem cell research.
Thus, I felt an appropriately sarcastic, dismissive and insensitive response was in order.
"Oh, I'm glad that my parents got really drunk one night in High School and got knocked up, or I wouldn't be here."
OK, I'll volunteer to go too far: "Thank God " ... no on second thought even I cannot bring myself to type the "logical extreme" version of that. No asbestos suit is thick enough. -----sapere aude
Yes, positions are firmly entrenched so that's probably the wisest. -----sapere aude
"You may be right. After all: "Just because you are a character doesn't mean that you have character." That still begs the question, however: which is more important?"
Your criticism should be directed to back to him unless feel it is acceptable to poke fun at my son.
