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> Is this really messed up or is my thinking is not
> in-line with today's standards?
Probably you are out of line with today's standards. But don't worry, I think most of us on here are. Making rational decisions seems to be out of line with most of today's standards. On here it seems to me that, at least in terms of major life decisions common sense, reason and living in reality seems to be the norm. In real life, with the majority of society it just is "I want, I get", no matter what the situation is.
> This is a breederhood encouragement as we know it.
> Why in the world would they do that? It seems to
> me that this article has an indirect meaning. If
> "majority" does it, why should the rest not do
> it?
This is total breeder encouragement. How could any one of these single mothers tell their teen, "You should wait to have sex until you are with someone you know and care for? You should wait to have kids until you are in a position to care for them?" The mom's actions tell a whole different story. I highly doubt any one of these single moos actually has ever worked a day in her life with children. They just see the friends with babies, and all the attention they get, and think "I want, better get knocked up".
I'd like to see if the xtian right comes out as strongly against this as they do against gay marriage, because if anything is a threat to heterosexual marriage, this is. Gays don't get married to make babies, but heteros do...and if the heteros don't have to get married to make the babies, then why should anyone get married at all? But they won't, because unwed mothers of any economic strata are easy to manipulate, unlike those pesky, self sufficient, gays.
> Where are we going?
How'd I get in this handbasket, and why is it getting so warm?
> If we all do something just
> to "fit in", why don't we all do meth? It's cool,
> and "everybody's doing it".
Because meth is fun, and in spite of all the focus on immediate gratification, our society is anti-fun, especially if that fun doesn't mean giving money to a huge corporation. Meth actually does what it's supposed to, it gets you high. You aren't supposed to remain single, renting, unchilded, carless or any other "abhorrent" life choices that we make, because that means you aren't being an "adult" and selfishly spending too much time (i.e. money) on yourself, and you are only one person who can only own so much. It doesn't matter if you are taking care of yourself, paying your rent and bills, and living within your means...all that matters is that you are consuming, and making more consumers.
> Somewhere, somehow, someone us making lots and
> lots of money off all of this. I have no other
> explanation. Kids cost astronomical amounts of
> money. To get people to spend it, they got to
> somehow convince that offspring is great. If not,
> who in the right mind would breed?
I am guessing that there are a few people who breed because they actually want to raise another person to be a decent human being, but we call these people parents, and don't mock them. The majority are breeders who just do it because it's LifeScript(tm) and don't have the balls to use their brains. They aren't taught to think, but to just circle A, B, or C. This makes corporations Very Happy, because people who don't think will drive themselves into perpetual debt trying to keep up with the Joneses, or make themselves happy....kind of like meth addicts chasing that awesome first high.
"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me