Have you consented to puberty yet
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So, how many years until UK goes the same as Canada? Did you consent to being born? If not, how about this government approved suicide pill?
I'm not one to Fedpost, but the actions of the British police at least make me Fedthink. What a bunch of arrogant Gestapo bastards.
What encourages me a bit is that every time one of these Gestapo police forces does this, or threatens the population, there are hundreds if not thousands of replies and quote tweets.
What discourages me is that police forces in the UK feel empowered to threaten the population on social media. I know of no other European country where that happens.
"Consent to being born," which I'm going to interpret to mean "consent to being conceived," doesn't make sense since there's no individual to provide consent until the individual exists (after conception). Otherwise, you're entertaining the idea that hypothetical autonomy can trump actions or decisions of real people. It's also purely speculative.
If the argument really is "consent to being born," then that's one arbitrary example among thousands of parents doing something to their offspring that must take place -- as in, is 100% necessary -- for their offspring to survive. In that case, I say consent is implied. If not, once the individual has sufficiently developed, they have ways out any time they choose.