Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "The Atlantic" channel.

@Raresnce I thought that the brother was 12.
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That's not true. The US system is not focused on rehabilitation, unlike in other countries which do a much better job.
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AJ Last You don't know what you're talking about. As for the original comment, indeed, note that neoliberalism means welfare for the rich and free market discipline for everybody else. This is the capitalist project that the world, particularly but not only the West, has been on since the 1980s, often imposed by force. Yep, it was imposed on places you mentioned, and on a huge scale in Eastern Europe. You're right about that.
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@blessedmamabyjesus There's no harm in not being born.
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@whotao-tf1gw I'm in some circles that have a wildly disproportionate percentage of trans/non-binary people. Something strikes me as strange about it, and it's gotten me thinking about this a lot. I see comments like those on this page, and scenarios like in the video, and I wonder: Are people losing sight of how one can be "masculine" but still a female, or more "feminine" and still male? Doesn't it just reinforce sex roles (and gender roles?) to say that one should change one's gender if one doesn't fit into the narrow binary? I am very reluctant to discuss this in person, because it's enough to get one branded as a bigot (TERF!), despite having no hostility towards trans people.
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@bloppysloppy4057 No, those are anecdotes.
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@yarpen26 This is correct, and free movement of people is one very positive thing about the EU. Of course, its neoliberal capitalist framework is a massive downside, making a lot of that emigration necessary!
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@oliviageving8219 How so?
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I'm not referring to this video in particular, but anecdotes aren't data.
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God is just pretend.
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Embryos aren't babies.
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*fewer
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@normajeanray There are no babies involved. My mother is pro-choice; that's how I know that I was wanted. There's no harm in not being born.
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@normajeanray First, "The Silent Scream" is nonsense. See the response from the medical community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_Scream Second, nobody is cheated by not being born. It's arguably the ideal outcome, particularly for religious types like you, as if one is never born, one's salvation can never be jeopardized! Third, it's not at all obvious that "someone" created us. You're assuming facts not in evidence.
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@normajeanray Did you actually read the statements from the medical community? Also, we're dealing with fetuses here.
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That's naive.
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Copypasta is bad enough, but when it's racist, that's worse.
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@DCMGM Criminologists have a lot to say about trying to stop crime via deterrence. It's not so simple. In the UK it was once common to publicly hang pickpockets, and yet pickpockets were known to work the crowds who gathered to see the executions.
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@DCMGM Yeah, it's a complicated subject. I need to look more thoroughly into how they handle it in Chiapas (the Zapatista areas), and in Rojava, to name just two examples.
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Ideally.
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Yes, but not on things related to the PBs. Unfortunately.
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It's much more prominent in the former Yugoslavia, which was unique in the communist world for being decentralized in its economics (and politics, I think). It was a non-aligned country during the Cold War. People had it pretty good in many ways, and then the IMF sunk its loan-shark claws in. As the Warsaw Pact countries were crumbling, it looked like Yugoslavia might get back on its feet, even with the incompetence that followed Tito's death. This was intolerable to the Western powers, they started meddling, and you know the rest. In Germany, they have Ostalgie, where they are nostalgic for many things about the GDR.
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He's a crackpot.
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Let's see. Most women who have abortions already have one or more children, and/or a sizable number of these women are married. You do realize how, in circumstances like these, much stigma (among other things) is attached to carrying a pregnancy to term and then making the kid available for adoption, right? In lots of other cases, women/girls will face violence from parents/partners if they are found to be pregnant. In others, they can't afford the costs associated with pregnancy and childbirth. First and foremost, they get abortions because they don't want to go through with the pregnancy, and that's nobody else's business.
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@blessedmamabyjesus There's no harm in not being born. You would never know nor care. The same is true for your sister, me, and absolutely everyone.
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How many people is that?
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@minaginger8786 They aren't babies yet, and there's no harm in not being born, but the point is that the combination of comprehensive accurate sex-ed and subsidized LARCs (Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives/Contraception, i.e. IUDs and implants) collapses the abortion rate. We've seen it in St. Louis, Colorado, the Netherlands, etc.
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@normajeanray And if I hadn't? What would I care?
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@normajeanray Embryos and fetuses aren't babies. The issue is personhood, not life.
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@normajeanray No, it's about personhood. What makes killing wrong? If you were never born (i.e. aborted), what would you care? Peter Singer puts it very well here (the video is inactive; just scroll down and read): https://rewire.news/article/2009/06/18/video-chomsky-and-singer-discuss-abortion/
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@normajeanray You completely missed the point. You and I both agree that killing is generally wrong, but how often do you think about why you think so? Our different answers as to "why?" frame arguments like this.
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@normajeanray If someone asked you to put into words why you think that killing is wrong, what would you say? Not everybody would say the same thing. Here- the video is gone from this link, but it's a quick read: https://rewire.news/article/2009/06/18/video-chomsky-and-singer-discuss-abortion/
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@normajeanray OK. Now we're getting somewhere. Did you click on the link?
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@normajeanray Do you understand Singer's perspective? Why do you consider it crazy? It's how I've always looked at this issue, inasmuch as there's no harm in not being born. I consider stances stemming from religion to be crazy, inasmuch as that's somebody's superstition, not mine, and we shouldn't be making laws based on that sort of thing. (Also, there is no such thing as Satan). There are a couple of other things here that need addressing: 1. How would you like to punish women who obtain abortions, whether through a provider or especially on their own? They can do this easily (if not necessarily advisedly!) with Misoprostol/Cytotec ordered online, or large doses of Vitamin C, black cohosh, and a variety of other things easily available at any drugstore. Early abortions look just like an early miscarriage, which they are, and thus one would have to investigate every miscarriage. 2. Do you support the positions of most secular pro-lifers, the Nuns on the Bus, and the National Association of Evangelicals? Since it's empirically proven that subsidizing LARCs (Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, i.e. IUDs and implants) and encouraging women to use them, along with accurate and comprehensive sex education, collapses the abortion rate, these groups believe that is the way to go to deal with abortion. Legislation, let alone direct action, is *not*.
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@leahanderson1576 Aw, thank you!
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@bloppysloppy4057 Which truth would this be?
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@bloppysloppy4057 Your second sentence right there is a perfect example of racism. Do you really believe it?
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DC Antifa!
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@LavaAnime Human? Sure. Alive? Technically, yes. Person? No! That's what makes all the difference. It's a philosophical argument.
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@blessedmamabyjesus Not all human beings are persons. Personhood refers to all the characteristics that make killing usually wrong: a will to live, hopes/dreams/desires, biological autonomy, and anything else that could be taken away. Embryos don't have anything close to that.
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