There's almost always an upswing when dumb shit like this happens. The religious kooks' hearts are in the right place, I just wish they had their heads on right.
@SnailTeeth I disagree. I don't think their hearts are in the right place. If they were, they'd be demanding things like paid maternity leave and subsidized day care. I truly think they don't actually care about the poor aborted fetuses, and are only interested in punishing women for having sex. That's how it sounds whenever one of them says "if you didn't want to be pregnant, you shouldn't have had sex."
Darrell Huff wrote an interesting guide back in the 1950's called, "How To Lie With Statistics".
I'm sure you could find charts like this in favor of whatever you wanted them to favor.
I'm sure you can find at least 5 other explanations for these peoples' behavior.
Where does believing they're being unreasonably spiteful leave you? Does it give you a course for action? Does it give you a course for healing or growth? Or does it leave you stuck feeling that way?
Do you want to carry that around in you? That heavy presumption, that these people are evil and control half the world?
I just wouldn't know what to do with that feeling. I feel like it would just snowball over time. What would stop me from inevitably presuming that about everyone?
@SnailTeeth There is, of course, a lot of variation among PL folks. I spend time on the Reddit abortion debate sub, and there are plenty of PL on there who say they do support things like free contraception, paid maternity leave, socialized medicine, etc. But if they end up voting for politicians who propose the death penalty for women who have abortions, none of that nuance makes a difference.
I support legal abortion, so it doesn't really matter if I demonize the other side or not. We just need to outvote them.
@Lila15 That's what I was trying to say. I think every action has an equal and opposite reaction in almost all aspects of universal existence.
We're all people trying our best. Some of us are so stuck in our own hatred, that it's all we know how to regurgitate into the world. It can get so bad, that we don't even consider it hatred, and we can't hear outside ourselves because we feel so stressed and under attack from within without knowing we're doing it to ourselves.
I don't think they're bad people, I think they just have habitual thinking problems. They meditate on the blemishes instead of the highlights. They take their directive from a place that has obfuscated fundamental origins.
I don't think religion is always the answer, I think sometimes it creates rigid immoveable constructs of thought, that inhibit personal development. I respect spirituality to a degree, but if we let our feelings rule our lives, that can easily lead to a path of losing control.
