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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #555 on: May 28, 2012, 07:50:58 pm »
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).

And only the worst of parents would kick their child out of the house because they turned 18. Many parents actually try to help their children get established through work or college and this only adds another 3-5 years depending on circumstances, probably more with current unemployment levels.  :-\

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #556 on: May 28, 2012, 09:47:43 pm »


It's good though that the billboard was taken down because people saw the racism in it. And from what i heard, the mother of the child in the photo was outraged that it was used that way.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #557 on: May 28, 2012, 10:30:33 pm »
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).

Can't you give the child? up for foster care if you can't take care of it.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #558 on: May 28, 2012, 10:33:14 pm »
That's still not very good for the child. Most of them will end up in the foster care system until they reach adulthood which can be very abusive. And when they are adults, they won't have the resources to get out of poverty. It's a nasty circle.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #559 on: May 28, 2012, 10:44:06 pm »
shep can vouch but the foster care system is overloaded.

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #561 on: May 29, 2012, 12:09:51 am »

Of course, there are Holocaust deniers or people that think the number was exaggerated, not that I'm one of them.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #562 on: May 29, 2012, 12:12:48 am »

Comparing non-sentient fetuses to black people does not reflect well on your opinion of black people.


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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #563 on: May 29, 2012, 12:15:20 am »
Repeat after me: "STOP COMPARING ABORTION TO THE HOLOCAUST"
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #564 on: May 29, 2012, 12:38:53 am »
Even if it were immoral to abort a fetus, the fact remains that living, thinking, feeling human beings were rounded up, tossed into camps or plantations, forced into labour, starved, tortured, and murdered. They were conscious and very aware of what was happening to them. They didn't just die -- they suffered.

It's not just the numbers that matter -- it's what happened to those people, what they experienced, what they thought, and the pain and fear the felt. To pretend that it's a matter of numbers and nothing more only serves to belittle the true horrors of slavery and the holocaust.
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #565 on: May 29, 2012, 12:49:42 am »
Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?



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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #566 on: May 29, 2012, 01:23:08 am »
shep can vouch but the foster care system is overloaded.

Not just overloaded but also terribly broken. But I won't go into that rant again lol

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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #567 on: May 29, 2012, 06:52:20 am »
Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?



There you go

Hey, I had that one on a poster when I was in college. :D
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #568 on: May 29, 2012, 07:09:30 am »
Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?



There you go

Hey, I had that one on a poster when I was in college. :D

I just googled dragon fire and found the first good one that wasn't someone's photobucket or art site :D
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Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
« Reply #569 on: May 29, 2012, 09:42:36 am »
Even if it were immoral to abort a fetus, the fact remains that living, thinking, feeling human beings were rounded up, tossed into camps or plantations, forced into labour, starved, tortured, and murdered. They were conscious and very aware of what was happening to them. They didn't just die -- they suffered.

It's not just the numbers that matter -- it's what happened to those people, what they experienced, what they thought, and the pain and fear the felt. To pretend that it's a matter of numbers and nothing more only serves to belittle the true horrors of slavery and the holocaust.

According to Christian belief they're all in hell now. Lovely isn't it?
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