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Jered wrote:
Termite wrote:I'd much rather a few of my tax dollars be spent on birth control for some "under-privileged" cunt, than a whole bunch of it spent feeding and housing her bastard until age 16-18; when often the county sheriff gets to take over housing & feeding the bastard.
You mean like Angel Adams?

In her case, the county sheriff is likely taking over her care and feeding, too.

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Termite wrote:I'd much rather a few of my tax dollars be spent on birth control for some "under-privileged" cunt, than a whole bunch of it spent feeding and housing her bastard until age 16-18; when often the county sheriff gets to take over housing & feeding the bastard.
Don't pay for the birth control and don't pay for the care and feeding of the young 'uns. The people having kids are grown up adults, and it demeans them to treat them like subhumans who cannot take care of themselves and cannot be expected to.

Some other thread was talking about how we as a society can't make decisions for the mentally ill without giving up the constitution. If you think about it, all this money is just bureaucratic persuasion (maybe to the point of gentle coercion) for convince those "taken care of" that they are unable to take care of themselves. That attitude has caused a significant decline in the quality of life of a large portion of the population by eroding their autonomy.

I'm probably not stating all of this completely clearly. It offends me to pay for a freeloader, just like it offends anyone. Freeloader being defined as someone who can take care of himself but won't. But it also offends me to see bureaucrats convince "clients" that they cannot take care of themselves and should not be expected to. That, right there, is oppression. Granted the oppression is avoidable if the victim sees the fraud being perpetrated on him and decides to go his own way. But a lot of the victims have been conditioned and mal-educated from infancy to fall into the victim/subhuman category. And that injustice being perpetrated on victims for financial gain makes me furious.
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Can't say it better than this:
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Weetabix wrote:Don't pay for the birth control and don't pay for the care and feeding of the young 'uns. The people having kids are grown up adults, and it demeans them to treat them like subhumans who cannot take care of themselves and cannot be expected to.
+1.
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Weetabix wrote:Don't pay for the birth control and don't pay for the care and feeding of the young 'uns. The people having kids are grown up adults, and it demeans them to treat them like subhumans who cannot take care of themselves and cannot be expected to.
I believe it was Aesop who said "there is what SHOULD be, and what IS", or something to that effect in a previous thread.

At the risk of sounding like an elitist/eugenecist, I think some of them really are close to "sub-human", at least in their behavior. I'm not ready to roll the cattle cars just yet, though. <smirk>

As for mandantory birth control to get a welfare check, I'm all for it. 8-)
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Termite wrote:At the risk of sounding like an elitist/eugenecist, I think some of them really are close to "sub-human", at least in their behavior. I'm not ready to roll the cattle cars just yet, though. <smirk>
The problem is mostly a result of bad culture. Granted, a subhuman culture. As for the remainder of the problem, just remember - someone has to occupy that tight space under the left side of the bell curve. :geek:

ETA: and I won't argue that some of them aren't ruined beyond recovery.
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Aesop wrote:If, on the other hand, a condition of receiving any form of welfare payments was presenting yourself at the window monthly to verify that Captain Norplant was still on the case every month, I could see subsidizing that.
......and I could see subsidized tubal ligations, too. In the interests of keeping costs down, the surgical interns could perform them, as they aren't terribly complicated.
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The only trouble with that latter idea is the real specter of past forced sterilizations.
That is not the model one wants to tout in sales brochures unless they're the spokeshole for the Aryan Brotherhood.
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Aesop wrote:That is not the model one wants to tout in sales brochures unless they're the spokeshole for the Aryan Brotherhood.
I do not give a flying shit about race WRT some subsidized permanent birth control. Plenty of little "white" sluts in Appalachia that could use a snip-job; hispanic ones in south CA/AZ, and native American ones in OK, NM, AZ, etc.
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I know that; the point is, appearances matter.
Performing sterilizations is roughly akin to opening concentration camps, and the slope between the two is short and slippery.
It is one of the "means" that no "ends" can ever justify.
Arguing otherwise is the rhetorical equivalent of suggesting that "the Jews were asking for it."
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