What is your issue?
What is the context and background
of your issue?
What is your ideal outcome?
Turn your problems into issues.
Problems need solutions.
Issues need understanding.
When you base your thinking
on the numbers, the theories,
instead of the people,
your solutions will be wrong.
Fear is antagonistic to creativity.
Reward works so much better
to encourage better work.
We may have concerns about
political leaders who are overly
experienced in politics, paradigms
of the past.
Who, then, are the young upcomers
capturing the public imagination,
offering well thought out ideas
for a future we would prefer?
it is the unwanted children, those
who then live without the material,
familial, spiritual necessities that every
child ought to thrive within, who suffer
the most when women are forced to be
brood mares against their desires or
their very real needs. Or do you have
some very good reason to enjoy the
prospect of children suffering?
you do understand children need -
food, shelter, security, pretty
constant care, people who show
love and concern, education even
in the very micro sense of learning
the basic ways to take care of themselves,
and so much more
Can you understand that many, many
people are not in a position to take care
of those needs, that they may be at the
very edge of what they can manage,
that they don’t see this “gift” as anything
but a terrible burden
and can you understand that pregnancy
is far from a gift, that there are so very
many things that can go horribly wrong,
that some pregnancies disallow for the
pregnant person to do the things they need
to for their lives and the lives of others
already dependent on them
If you are so concerned about these
theoretical children with whom you have
no responsibility or knowledge perhaps
you could address THEIR real needs –
not your phony morality
And consider the very real pain of birth
when you speak of ripping infants from
the womb – you have no idea, do you,
of what you speak
there is a vast difference between a
forming unborn without actual
connections or realization of life and
a person who can speak and act in their
own interests. So, yes, I support assisted
suicide, but certainly not encouraged or
forced or murder. And it’s not that I am
speaking of doing away with ongoing
pregnancies from an outside interference
(like some people insist on outside interference
to prevent ending pregnancies). I am
speaking of allowing potential mothers to
make the best choice for themselves and
their potential children, because they are the
ones who know their circumstances and
have to deal with the consequences.
As for being free to choose – have you heard
of rape or other forms of coercive sex. And,
of course, there are all those pregnancies that
become problematic even if reproduction
was the goal when she engaged in those activities.
And, whether you can grasp this or not,
due to lack of appropriate sex education,
there are young women who honestly
don’t understand the potential consequences
of these actions they were convinced by
young men they really ought to engage in.
Because of being the means of reproduction
as it were, women suffer in cruelly unnecessary ways.
I often wonder why it seems that we
over-value the "conservative" view, act as
if our arguments and defaults have to cater
to those specious values.
9/9-15/23
