I will never understand why burned up people in IT is so intent of changing a work where you may have intellectual challenges but you don't need to make strenous physical effort for extreme physical labor. I wouldn't be caught dead doing one of those jobs, and the idea of wanting them is unfathomable to me.
richieadler
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My concerns typically would lie in the sense of manufactured risk when lower risk options are readily available and effective.
What "risk" are you talking about for a vasectomy? It's an ambulatory procedure. Care to explain?
Condoms are inexpensive, especially when you’re comparing to a surgical procedure. Condoms have a reasonably good efficacy when properly used, and is increased significantly when used alongside other contraceptives (not to mention the additional benefits of lowering risk of STIs/STDs).
You are grossly underestimating the need for most truly convinced childfree people to reduce the probability as close as possible to an absolute zero. Not even vasectomy reaches that, but it's very close.
And just as an added question for you, if these surgeries were not reversible at all, would your views on this change?
No. Less children raised by unprepared parents is always a good idea.
Which it's known to be the case for most people.
To make a bad equivalency: would you have any reservations with someone younger than 18 choosing to have a vasectomy/tubes tied? What about 16? 13?
They don't have the legal capacity to decide it, so the question is moot.
At some point we are going to agree that making that permanent¹ life choice isn’t a good idea as they just simply aren’t mature enough.
No, it's just a question of legality. With your criteria, young trans people would be unable to decide that they need to start a soft transition because they're not "mature enough".
What the person you’re responding to is trying to get at, I think, is that many of these preferences or desires can easily change in your formative years as a young adult (18-25 for full frontal lobe development, I believe).
So? If it's that important for them, they can reverse it, and if not, and it's really that important, they can adopt. But less population is a net positive in general. One person is not going to change the general trend anyway.
when you can use readily available over the counter solutions like condoms.
If wrongly used, the probability of conception exceeds 20%.
A well done vasectomy reduces the probability to near 0%.
No comparison.
You may not understand how insulting and condescending your comment is.
Just because breeding is the default, you shouldn't be proselytizing against sterilization.
self-interested American foreign policy
I detect some redundancy here.
Not true in Argentina and France, both infected by psychoanalysis and in particular by Lacan.
I use names of known computers or androids in fiction. My main computer is always Ralf (the computer built by Richie Adler in Whiz Kids), and my main phone is Lal (Data's daughter). My girlfriend uses other franchises (GLaDOS, Wheatley, Marvin).
Being rich is not natural. And it's a red flag because you don't get rich without being an asshole.
Skin darkens as an attempt to defend us from excess UV, not for a cosmetic benefit.
Nothing human is eternal. But you're speaking in absolutes and I challenge that. Give me intellectual challenges, I couldn't care less about making a nice chair or a sculpture.
That's the problem. You can try elsewhere, maybe?