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I realize this is the edgiest thing I’ve posted here, but my reaction to anti-abortion advocates is “then what?” Let’s say you have a healthy baby, mothered by someone who can’t or won’t raise a baby. What are you actually going to do in order to give that baby a good life? You can’t even take decent care of the children who’re already in the foster system! And yes, I personally wouldn’t want to terminate a viable fetus, but it’s not about me. My feelings don’t matter as much as the experiences of a child who was neglected or abused. If I can’t promise them care, then I don’t have the right to insist on their suffering to make myself feel better.

Someone once told me they wanted the right to suicide “for the same reason [their] homelessness was treated with antidepressants.” A world where they could be guaranteed the conditions to be happy would be better, but the right to suicide if sufficiently unhappy was more achievable in their lifetime. I thought that was the most depressing thing I’d ever heard, but I saw the logic in it.

Originally posted in response to a post by Polyfrazzlemented

I guess what I’m pushing at is that all the anti-capitalist stuff I see assumes the replacement for capitalism is closely linked tribal groups, and I tend to assume that the more linked people are, the more they’ll hate me for being different. I feel a lot safer in an environment where I’m valued for earning money, and will continue to be valued so long as the money comes in, than in an environment where the only thing protecting me is love, which can be conveniently discarded if someone doesn’t like that I’m queer.

WOW that’s so much more cynical and depressing than I thought I was capable of.