The 23 Apples of Eris

I heard we just trained them to do to each other what we were doing to them: militarized oppression, prison torture, and crumbling infrastructure.

I heard they aren’t even allowed labor unions; I mean, who are they going to blame when management closes the oil wells?

Foreign policy, gay marriage, telling progressives to “make me care”, the health care debacle where they kept rewriting it to please the Con. The complete lack of change. The dismissive attitude towards hope. Seriously, the more I see of Obama, the more I wonder whether he’s just our old friend George in for a third term.

Mark Twain was right. If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

I’ll go one step further: If the president had any power, they wouldn’t let a black man get elected. So, the good news is: it’s not the black man’s fault. The bad news is: they’ll blame him for it anyway.

I am slowly becoming as cynical as the Troll Discordians. This upsets me because I don’t like hating. Please, I beg of you all, how do I not become a victim of society’s complete and total fuckedupness? And, for once, locking myself in my room, curling into a ball, and writing erotic fiction about teddy bears is not the answer.

Remember: Baby’s are gifts, not punishments. You can return a gift, but you can’t return a prison sentence.

Abortion is [...] not to be used as a constant easy-out card for women who do not want to take responsibility for a child.

Does consent to swimming imply consent to drowning? (Does consent to sex imply consent to pregnancy?)

The common reply involves knowing and accepting the risks, which we can all agree with.

But what if we do accept the risk? What if we learn to swim and wear our water wings? What if our wings burst and we get a lung-full of water and panic and go under? At what point does it stop being acceptable to stand by and say, “It’s your fault; I won’t help you.”

The answer is: it’s never okay to stand by and let others suffer. That’s hurtful, and hurting people is bad. Instead, even if we can’t swim, we should call someone who can, look for flotation devices that we can throw to them, etc. Helping people is good.

So, even if they are being completely irresponsible and end up with an unwanted pregnancy, it’s not okay for us to abandon them.

My desire to make them take responsibility is trumped by my moral obligation to help them in any way I can.

Let’s have at it: A Discordian Advanced Debate and Apologetics Golden Something or Other (DADAGASM (Am I doing it right?)). The topic this thread: abortion. On Demand or Satellite? Without Apology or Fries With That?