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richard
response 196 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 01:23 UTC 2006

I never said there weren't women who are pro-life.  Of course there 
are.  What I'm saying is that in the history of this country, MEN have 
made the decisions more often than not, and MEN will willingly 
restrict the choices a woman can make and will NOT willingly restrict 
the choices that they can make.

Its a double standard.  A guy who sleeps around is a stud.  A woman 
who sleeps around is a whore.  Why?  Because in some people's minds, 
men have the right to make more decisions and engage in more 
activities than women do.  
richard
response 197 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 01:25 UTC 2006

And marcvh and cyklone, if you are saying there is no sexism in our 
society, and that sexism hasn't played a role in shaping attitudes and 
creating laws, I submit that you are not living in the real world.  
scholar
response 198 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 01:28 UTC 2006

Re. 196:  Actually, it's because, ultimately, women can only have one person
pregnant with their children at once and they HAVE to provide MUCH more for
their children by default than men.

This is what the science of evolutionary psychology has taught us.
marcvh
response 199 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 01:33 UTC 2006

Sorry Richard, you only responded twice in a row!  If only you had responded
a third and fourth time, you might have convinced me.  But, instead, I now
believe that there is no sexism in society.  That's what Richard said, and
I'm sure it's definitely the truth and not just some bizarre non-sequitur
he made up out of nowhere.  Absolutely.
richard
response 200 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 01:37 UTC 2006

marcvh re-read my post, I did NOT state as a fact that you believe 
there is no sexism in society.  I said that if, IF...I F...you believe 
there is no sexism in society.  Do you not know what the word IF 
means?  sheesh
johnnie
response 201 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 02:00 UTC 2006

People keep saying that if women are allowed to opt out via abortion
or adoption, guys should be able to opt out, too.  That's crap. 
Abortion and adoption are not true options for many women.  Why not say
guys can opt out of child support if they agree to castration or
suicide?  Sounds perfectly fair to me.
cyklone
response 202 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 03:32 UTC 2006

Richard, given how many women are willing to "oppress" other women, don't you
find your claim "da Man" is keeping them down just a tad patronizing?
scholar
response 203 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 03:56 UTC 2006

i like women because they're neat.
klg
response 204 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 04:06 UTC 2006

(JEP:  Stop calling RW an idiot and a liar.  That's my job.)
slynne
response 205 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 04:34 UTC 2006

I believe that abortion should be legal because before birth, the fetus
is dependant on a woman's body and I strongly believe that women should
have the right to make medical decisions about their own bodies. 

However, I think that both men and women should have equal rights after
the child is born. If a child is born and the woman wants to put it up
for adoption and doesnt want to be a parent but the father of the child
*doesnt* want to put it up for adoption and instead wants to raise it
himself, the woman should be required to pay him child support. As far
as I know, that is how things are currently. Just like how if after a
child is born, if the man wants to put it up for adoption and the woman
doesnt, he is liable for child support. Those guys with that lawsuit are
creating "unfairness" where it doesnt exist. 

jep
response 206 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 14:43 UTC 2006

re resp:184: I explained, in resp:100, that I am against the man's 
lawsuit in part because it would increase the number of abortions.  
Some pregnant women are pretty much going to be forced toward abortion 
because they're not going to have financial support or paternal help in 
raising their children.  It is better to eliminate the option of 
abortion, and also to eliminate the option of evading paternal 
responsibility.  Neither of those wrongs are going away completely, but 
there is no need to increase them.

I am also, separately, against the guy's lawsuit because it would also 
increase the number of single women raising children without the 
financial support and physical involvement of the fathers.  Due to a 
hypothetical law based on this principle, some number of men would run 
away from their responsibilities to their children, with the woman 
bearing and raising the child herself anyway.  There's way too much of 
that already.  We don't need anything that will make it happen even 
more.

The lawsuit is for the dads and against their children.  I don't see 
any "up" side to that lawsuit at all.
twenex
response 207 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 15:37 UTC 2006

I hav olways fund brus speling to b worng.
keesan
response 208 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 16:30 UTC 2006

Nobody is forced into having an abortion because they don't have money to
raise a child.  They can always give birth and put the child up for adoption.
They also have the option of accepting government aid if they are low income.
scholar
response 209 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 16:38 UTC 2006

Right, because children raised on government aid and children raised in foster
homes are many times more likely to have good lives than children who grow
up in homes with biological parents who have enough to support them.
mcnally
response 210 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 18:09 UTC 2006

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richard
response 211 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 19:08 UTC 2006

too many children being born places excessive monetary pressures on the
government, one way or another.  The Morning After pill is something fiscal
conservatives should support, because we all benefit from unwanted births
going down, and from the birth rate in general going down.  
happyboy
response 212 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 19:12 UTC 2006

they are the future the service industry and make GREAT
cannon fodder.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!


klg
response 213 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 20:11 UTC 2006

RW:  I am the government and it's fine with me.

Do you support gutting Social Security and Medicare so as to reduce the 
number of non-productive senior citizens who place excessive monetary 
pressures on the government?
marcvh
response 214 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 20:27 UTC 2006

How would that reduce their number?  Suicides?
tod
response 215 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 20:52 UTC 2006

re #204
Finally some sense!
richard
response 216 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 20:52 UTC 2006

klg I *am* the government and so are you.  WE are the government.  Stop acting
if the government is some evil third-party enty.  Our government is of, by
and for the people.  It is not government run by the church, or run by
dictators, or run by autocratic regimes.  It is government run BY the people.
It is the great experiment.  Can people govern themselves.  You should support
our government.
tod
response 217 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 10 20:56 UTC 2006

Its run by corporations.
keesan
response 218 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 11 01:03 UTC 2006

I put monetary pressure on my bank by sometimes taking out the money I have
put into my account there.
klg
response 219 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 11 02:33 UTC 2006

Who said RW could be the government?
richard
response 220 of 254: Mark Unseen   Mar 11 20:50 UTC 2006

klg said:

"Do you support gutting Social Security and Medicare so as to reduce 
the number of non-productive senior citizens who place excessive 
monetary pressures on the government?"

Of course not.  klg did you fail u.s. history/social studies when you 
were in school?  The PURPOSE of the government is to be a collective 
force, derived from and by the community, to protect the community.  
You don't protect the community by simply raising an army.  You protect 
a community by helping to take care of its tired, its poor, its sick 
and yes...its elderly.

You would never say a soldier who has served his country in wars isn't 
entitled to be taken care of later in his life with government benefits 
would you?  Well these elderly people, most of them, have served their 
country in their own ways.  They are the ones who kept this economy 
going and this country functioning while you or your parents were 
young.  And you want to gut social security and medicare and toss them 
aside as if they were worthless now that they've reached elderly age?  
Just because you are so obsessed with taxes?  If true thats really 
heartless.  When you get old, IF you get old, you'll want your social 
security I bet and you won't complain a bit about medicare.  But only 
when you get old evidently.
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