"The best way to sabotage chances for upward mobility of a youngster from a single-parent household, who resides in a violent slum and has attended poor-quality schools is to make it unprofitable for any employer to hire him. The way to accomplish that is to mandate an employer to pay such a person a wage that exceeds his skill level."
"I think mathematicians do mathematics for reasons that are very similar to those of musicians playing music or any artist doing their art. It’s all about trying to contribute to a certain understanding of ourselves and of the world around us."
Princeton mathematician Manjul Bhargava, who has been awarded the 2014 Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics. Read more about Bhargava and the award here and watch a video about him here. (via mathematica)
This post is both extremely condescending and emotionally manipulative. It’s disgusting. -Alyssa
Let’s fix these.
1) Abortion matters because pregnancy should not be a punishment
2) Abortion matters because having a child would put me in a bad financial situation
3) Abortion matters because I need to finish my education to provide for my future family
4) Abortion matters because I don’t want my child to grow up without knowing a father
#AbortionMatters because taking away human life for your own gain has become socially acceptable.
lol caerix.
1. Yet being conceived is bad enough to kill for?
2. So money is more important than lives?
3. Are you so inept that you can’t balance a family and school? You’ll find a career and family a lot harder.
4. Perhaps don’t sleep around?
I was going to respect you until you said “don’t sleep around”, that makes you sound like a sexist douchebag so you shouldn’t say it.
Honestly, you seem to think the worst thing in life is death. You would rather force someone to give birth just so both they and their child can struggle? That’s a pretty shitty thing to do.
And I don’t know why you think abortion has anything to do with punishing a fetus. It doesn’t. It has everything to do with someone not wanting to be pregnant, or not being able to afford being pregnant for whatever reason.
Some people would have to go off medication because it would harm the fetus, and they can’t do that because it could lead to serious mental problems rearing their heads and putting the pregnant person at risk.
And people who are attending college don’t really have time to keep up with a child. A baby needs 24 hour attention, and a full-time college student cannot possibly devote that much time and still keep up with their education.
Being blind to circumstances surrounding an abortion doesn’t make you look at all caring. If a fetus is going to be brought into a world where it won’t be loved or sufficiently cared for, it would much more humane to end it’s life before it becomes aware.
Bullshit. You want the kid to know the father? Make sure the father will be someone who sticks around. It ain’t rocket science.
And the fetus is the one getting ripped apart. There’s a reason they display survival instincts at at least 11 weeks.
Also…
“Honestly, you seem to think the worst thing in life is death. You would rather force someone to give birth just so both they and their child can struggle? That’s a pretty shitty thing to do.”
Are you fucking kidding me? Would you really go to Africa and tell them how many millions should die just because they have it bad?
And as I said, college ain’t shit compared to a real career job. If you think you don’t have time in college, you won’t ever be ready for a family.
As someone who was raised by a single mother along with my brother while she put herself through college in a single-bedroom apartment that didn’t even have electricity all the time we were so poor… fuck you and your idiotic idea that I and my brother should have been killed because it would be ‘humane’.
Hell, my shoes have had holes I could stick fingers through for a month and I plan on wearing them at least a month longer specifically because I know how hard it can get.
Oh, and my mother worked her way up to being a regional executive from then before deciding to switch career paths.
I’m not saying anyone shouldn’t have been born. That’s not how it works. Being pro-choice means if you want have kids, great, here’s some baby supplies. You want to adopt, I’ll give you a list of adoption agencies. You want an abortion, I’ll help you raise money.
The point is everyone should have a choice. What worked for your mother does not always work for everyone, and that’s life. One situation is not comparable to another. Each pregnancy is different, and each person may do what they like with it. It’s their right to.
Those who are already born can feel pain, and some actually would rather be dead, so you probably shouldn’t insinuate that everyone should be grateful that they’re alive. There’s plenty of privileged, well-off people who don’t want to be alive, just imagine how much worse it is for those struggling to get one meal a day, and telling them to be grateful is just rude and insensitive.
It would be far more efficient to solve real-world problems first before attacking reproductive rights. Fix the adoption system, legalize the right of gay couples to adopt, and increase budgets for prenatal care, birth control, and comprehensive sex education in schools. Those are things that reduce abortion rates. Illegalizing abortion won’t change how many abortions occur, it just increases the risk that two lives will be lost instead of one.
Bullshit. Walk up to some poor kid and tell them that should be okay that they were never born. Do you have any clue what the hell that does to a kid’s psyche? It is exactly the same thing.
And why do you think those people struggle for stuff? Cuz they want to live and want a better life. It’s hope they’ve lost. You just broadcast the signal that it’s better to die than hope.
And it will reduce the number of abortions as people will look for alternatives. It’s kinda like saying making slavery illegal wouldn’t reduce the number of slaves.
Oh fuck no. You do not compare abortion to slavery. Slaves were living breathing
sentient human beings! They could experience pain and understand that the slave owners had no rights to their bodies. Slavery was a direct violation of human rights, which are assigned at birth, not at conception, and even if they were, a fetus would still not have rights to another person’s body. You don’t get to place a fetus on a pedestal and give it more rights than an actual human being. You do not get to reduce women* to incubators with less rights than a corpse simply because you’re under the illusion that a fetus is entitled to someone else’s organs. Consent to sex is in no way consent to pregnancy, just like getting in a car is not consent to getting into an accident. Unless continuous consent is given for a fetus to use the mother’s* body, then it there against the pregnant person’s will and can thusly be removed as to exercise the right of bodily autonomy.
A baby isn’t fully sentient either, so unless you’re prepared to argue for infanticide to be legal, don’t even bother.
Nor are some mentally handicapped capable of perceiving rights. Again, don’t bother unless you think eugenics is okay.
A fetus has the same rights that all other people get, which includes the right to life. Especially given that a corpse is what you think people should be able to turn them into.
If you let semen in the womb, you’ll likely get pregnant. If you can’t understand cause and effect, that doesn’t give you the right to kill.
Continuous consent? Shall I kick out an infant from my house because I didn’t give continuous consent to them making me work harder? No, the very idea is bloody stupid because a baby is not fully sentient!
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Einstein was not fully sentient at that point in his life, either
