Comments by "Len" (@Len-jk4zi) on "How I Had an Abortion at Home in Texas | NYT Opinion" video.
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@TheDakotaFrazier In our society, you need money to eat and live, but a career is more than just money.
A healthy career is an aspiration, accomplishment and a mark of status in society.
Having a good career opens a great many doors in the world we live in, and not having one closes far more.
There are rich people filled with joy and poor people plagued by depression.
You can find a great many joyous rich people on YouTube itself, you can find them everywhere.
It's not the money that makes them happy, although it definitely helps.
It's the community that their careers has ushered them into that does.
"Or you can prove this by simply saying, if it was true, then happiness should correlate with how much people like their jobs."
That's the perspective I had when I was a young teenager, but that's simply not a good way to look at it.
We no longer live in a world where the average person can have a healthy social life that is fully separated from their work life; the cost of living everywhere is too high for that.
If your career doesn't give you fulfillment, you're probably too tired to find fulfillment elsewhere.
"But then what about the people who don't work that are very happy."
I would love to see how those people are living.
If we're talking about modern society, that can't be good.
"You can be empty inside but a hobby can be a momentary escape or distraction"
I suppose I shouldn't even have used the term "hobby".
My only hope for a career path is currently my hobby, and if I don't turn it into a career, I will die and have lived a life that is more negative than happy.
I know there are people that are worse off than me and have suffered much worse, but I would never wish that on my child.
I would rather abort if I know that my child will be in the same hopeless situation that I am in.
Yes, there are starving African children that grew up and made something of their lives.
There are also those that didn't make it that far.
Whilst life is a series of ups and downs, the circumstances we bring children into DO matter.
I truly believe that in better circumstances, if my parents were more educated, I might be living a happy life right now.
But no, instead I'm living paycheck to paycheck and the assets I need to even BEGIN putting the work in to make a positive change (despite the incredibly low likelihood that I will succeed, given my condition) will take me upwards of five years to save for.
I'm sure you can imagine that five years of saving up for something that you probably won't even manage to pull off would put a bit of a burden on your happiness.
If you don't think so, then I'd like you to change your perspective; perhaps you're lucky enough to have the strength to persevere.
There is a point where if you're asking people to suffer so they can live up to your ideals, they're simply not going to have it.
If you want people to have children when they think the world is not a good place for children anymore...well, let's say you succeed.
Then suddenly these people have children, and they think that you are responsible for everything bad that has happened to them.
It's an awful outcome all around.
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@Robin Ralson I got curious and disabled my extension to see what you were up to.
I might as well set you straight on what I believe in before I turn it back on and never hear from you again.
I'm male, and my sense of empathy is why I'm firmly pro-choice.
I do not believe that a fetus not being born is a negative thing, and I believe that the end of life is neither good nor bad.
This is because there are plenty of people out there that are suffering and choose to stop living because life is no longer a good thing for them.
I do not consider fetuses to be living prior to fetal viability as I base my definition on the scientific characteristics of life, and nothing else.
I reject the claim that fetuses are able to learn languages and recognize voices as they do not attain cognitive thought until long after birth.
I believe that children should grow up having plenty of prospects and every opportunity to succeed, and I recognize that not everybody will have that opportunity.
I believe that the number of children we have should be limited to the number of children we can provide for and have them prosper, instead of giving birth as frequently as possible and ruining life for everyone.
I view abortion as a morally righteous action, as it prevents the birth of a child that either has no prospects or a family that does not want them.
Cruelty can only happen to that which is alive.
Death is inevitable, but suffering can be prevented.
I will do what I can to prevent suffering when I see it, and create prosperity where it can happen.
And with that, I really don't have anything else to say to you.
If you don't agree with what I believe in, that's okay, we can agree to disagree.
If you want to fight against people that believe what I do, then we'll fight back and we'll wage some form of war over it.
There's middle ground, though.
You don't have to have an abortion if you don't want to, and the ones that do can abort privately and you don't have to know about it.
If you can't agree to that, then there will be no peace.
I won't change your views, and you won't change mine, so I'm just going to toggle that extension back on and I'll never see another comment from you again.
There's no need to harass someone that can't even see your comments, so I do hope you move on.
Feel free to engage the people that still wish to engage with you.
I'm no longer one of them.
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@andersbeth6786 Says our entire species.
Outlaw it, and they'll just abort illegally.
If when you outlaw something, it doesn't at all reduce the rate at which it occurs, it's probably because you've outlawed something you shouldn't have.
6 weeks is NOT enough time to figure out you are pregnant and undergo an abortion.
On average, most women won't find out they're pregnant until 8 weeks.
If abortion is murder, then I guess we're all murderers, then.
We still have to do it, and it's more important for us as individuals AND as a species than your moral outrage.
" By the way thanks for admitting you're perfectly ok executing a 7 months old fetus."
Under the awful circumstances that would require me to execute a 7 month old fetus, I absolutely would be.
Again, if I have no choice, you can be as outraged as you like.
I will always do what I believe is the right thing to do.
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@Robin Ralson
"You're right, I did spell that word incorrectly because I used the word suggestions in the suggestion bar on my keyboard, which sometimes tends to show false spellings"
Now you've changed your story, and your credibility is gone.
First it was a typo, now you've blamed it on a suggestion bar.
I can tell you that when I see incorrect spelling on a suggestion bar, I think "Gee, I must have mistyped something for it to have learned that. I'll just spell it correctly this time by hand."
Anyone else that cares about how they present themselves will think something similar, some might even go so far as to remove it from the dictionary, although I definitely wouldn't.
I didn't have to say very much to get you to slip up; you're not nearly as smart as you think you are.
But because of the way you've behaved here, it is far more likely for people to see you as deceitful than someone that made an innocent mistake.
You really should have stuck with the typo story.
"I knew what the spelling was and changed it in ALL the comments to you in which I have mentioned it. "
I suppose you're too lazy to even do that.
At the time that I'm typing this comment, I went back and grabbed a screenshot of your mistake from the thread where I first called you out for it, as well as both of your explanations for it.
It also helps that you used "lisence" (sic) in the wrong context, nevermind the spelling.
Anyone else would have said "reason" or "grounds", but for some reason you had to be weird about it.
I hope you get the help you need sometime soon, man.
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