Quick google says that about 40% of abortions are performed on someone that had an abortion before. Meanwhile, rape related pregnancy are about 0.5% and only half of the victims get an abortion. I don't feel like doing the math but in all likelihood, you are correct. Also, as you'd probably guess, the AI picture of the op is representative to the extent that the average abortion seeker is a college educated 20 something single indepted leftist woman.
Hot take: I'm for abortion because most people that seek it shouldn't reproduce in the first place and the chance that the kid will grow up to be anything but a stain on society is basically 0. It's self imposed eugenics. Removing the option won't magically make her reconsider her sex life because that would assume that, intrinsically, she already had the common sense to make the right call. She doesn't... in other words, banning abortion just creates more defects in society. It's only the right thing to do when most of society is already high value but God knows we're not anywhere close to that. And if we were, you wouldn't need a ban because no one would seek it.
Yes I noticed this too. Rejects, autists and nerds in general are the main adopters of this nonsense. Most game devs are one of these so the outcome is an overrepresentation of trans in the indie space. My guess is that transdom gives these misfits the societal approval that they were otherwise denied due to their quirks. Presumably the ones that don't follow along (us) either are outwardly normal and/or don't value acceptance as much.
Why don't these idiots go storm the Israel embassy or something instead? Or do they really want the US to be the world police? Maybe they are finally admitting that Israel and the US are controlled by the same people lol
The whole point of crypto is to not have intermediaries like the gov and banks so it's fucking ridiculous to propose a digital currency issued by the gov. There's literally no difference from a user standpoint. Even coming from a "simplicity" argument, there's no difference between doing a typical e-transfer and exchanging a government issued e-currency because the digital wallets will be offered through banks. Like I'm no expert but the only reason I see for doing this is control and if it isn't, they sure did a shit job explaining it.
There was a time I'd buy anything blizzard. I would spend so much time not only playing but discussing lore, drawing fan art, watching esport, etc. I spent a bunch on collector's editions and going to blizzcon was a dream. Yet I don't have Diablo 4, I don't have the D2 remaster, I'm not subbing to WoW and I don't have the last few expansions... I have no intention of ever buying one of their game again. The way they managed to make die hard fans like me completely apathetic is really something.. though not uncommon among most popular western fandoms.
So I dug from where you left off. There's a website linked in the twitter account. If you follow it and look at the copyright info, it says that it's owned by addicting info LLC. Then I googled this and found the owner to be Mathew Kerry. Now, I couldn't find much info on this guy other than apparently his whole thing is stealing/reposting "content" from other lefties and trying to make ad money out of it. That's according to a post of a guy that's mad about it anyways. In any case, that kind of explains the no context post. The woman claim is either false or "modern day woman" (aka also false).
Yeah well it does work though which is why people don't want to change it.... I see this guy is an artist supposedly? If I took a dump all over his art I guess he should just grow up and not get angry, it's just paintings after all, it's not real
Fair though I do worry about the last paragraph. The main issue is that people have never agreed on what's the objective. There is no established universal destination for society at large. Everyone has this idea of a utopia but no one tells you what you should do once you're there beside enjoy it. Are we to assume then that maximizing enjoyment is the end goal? Or is there no greater purpose? A morale paradigm needs to answer those questions if it is to unite us forward. Christianity brought us to the peak of western civilization but had no say into where else we should go once we got there. I'd argue this is why it stopped being fashionable. That's not to say that our lives couldn't have been better then but merely that they were confortable enough. At that point, people search for a greater purpose. Most will settle for self-indulgence while some others will throw themselves at a random cause. This is what led to the chaos and morale depravity of today. If Christianity had a good answer, we wouldn't be here and if Christianity leads us to where we were, we'll come back here again.
False all around. The age of an idea doesn't correlate with the absolute validity of its principles but by an umbrella of other factors. For example, the power of who promotes it. An idea can survive for thousands of years and still be wrong. See flat earthers.
Do you need to rediscover the wheel to build a car? No. Similarly you don't need to build your values from scratch.. you only need to read what was written and logically establish if it's applicable to you or not. As a matter of fact, this is perfectly demonstrated by your Socrates point. His students were able to leapfrog him BECAUSE they learned from him first.
Finally you can go play semantic and "who's the better Christian scholar" alone. That doesn't interest me. Though I'll say that judging by the lack of humility in your post, you have a bit more reading to do.
Tbf, the idea is to build your own set of values by analyzing what's presented to you as opposed to blindly following anyone. This is what a leftist would argue after reading this meme. Which is true but very hypocritical coming from them as they're definitely pushing their own morality to kids. At the end of the day, an inquisitive mind would never settle on wokeness because it has no logical foundation. You're much more likely to follow Christian values because it's pure high level "be nice" common sense.
Very hard to follow the logic of wokies. Why praise a group of people that are symmetrically opposed to them in every way? clearly the only consistent thread among all their bullshit is they wish for self-destruction
The only question that needs answering is can a guy watch that trash now and not abuse children in the future? The answer is yes. There's no reliable evidence that one leads to the other. Since this fetish is too taboo, lets look at an another one.. vore porn for example. There's been a massive increase in voraphiliac content, yet, there hasn't been an increase in cannibalism or suicide by being eaten. You can count the number of cases like this on one hand. Yet there's million of subscribers to vore communities, patreon artists are making massive bank drawing this shit, etc. If jacking off to a sexual fetish art piece led to action, why would this not apply to this fetish? The answer is simple, it doesn't work that way.
The main predictor of crime against another person is not the entertainment you enjoy, it's your self control and your respect for the social contract. Both are hard to quantify and honestly, if the leftists were to decide how we measure it, Kia members would be the first to be jailed. Some people here seem to think living in the 'Minority Report' is a good idea... it's not for obvious reasons.
Also, for all those saying it leads to brain rot or whatever nonsense.. well they used to say them same thing of homosexuality yet we had people like Alan Turing who contributed more to society than all of us ever will. What people jack off too doesn't define who they are. Only fucking wokies want identities to be built around sexuality. Are you woke? No? Then fuck off. Tolerance, not acceptance.
Pedos exist and will keep existing. Let them use cartoons and AI to take the steam off. It hurts no one and doesn't lead to action in real life. Does violent games lead to murder? Nope. This is no different. If you're against Loli, you might as well be against violent games too. Technically it's more degenerate to play a game where you kill very realistic people on repeat than jacking off to an unrealistic cartoon.
Also, art is an extension of your mind. Banning any type of art is very close to thought police 1984 bs. All thoughts should be permitted. Even the most vile trash that you can think of. What's not allowed is acts in the real world that break the social contract. Again, one doesn't lead to the other. Case in point, look at Japan, the cradle of degeneracy. It's more functional than any western country because the people there understand this principle but also respect the social contract.
The one that stands out to me from this list is Valve. Gabe is woke? Thought he was a hardcore libertarian. Nothing they released recently speak to me as pandering to leftist either but then again I haven't really touched their games in years.
Any idea what they could have done with Valve specifically?