“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.
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But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.“
And that is gross.
Not to mention that CONSENT TO SEX IS NOT CONSENT TO PREGNANCY. No more than consent to chocolate is consent to diabetes or consent to fried food is consent to heart disease.
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This sounds a bit illegal, but IANAL. And let’s be honest, the actors are joining them, but it might take the VIEWERS en masse canceling their streaming in solidarity (specifically in solidarity).
Sorry studios and hedge funds, but your “product” of “creatively” extracted profit by cutting out the creatives from their own labor isn’t as valuable as you think. Your exploitative profiteering only works if the thing you’re selling is something people wanna buy.
I'M CRYING OVER MY PROM DRESS, THIS IS INSANEEEEE
Hi I’m not okay thanks, but I’m so proud of him. I love this tour and clearly so do they.
I heard the shake in his voice when he said, “That’s a lotta lights,” and I don’t think he expected that.
I think part of the reason I can't get into any "modern" rock musicians off tiktok is that they're all so focused on getting big by harnessing the algorithm to work for them that there's no like passion behind anything? Like today's society already has a stupid thing where seeming sincere is cringe and all of those artists are making posts from their bedroom like "here's a snippet of our new song. Would be cool if this blew up or something :) or not. It's whatever" and then they repost 20 variations of that and it's SOOOO boring. Have some stories about shit like punching each other in the face during recording to make you mad enough to do the whole thing in one take?? Show me you actually fucking CARE. GET WEIRD WITH IT. Show me that passion and effort went into your songs bc otherwise I'm going to assume you made it in a SoundCloud program using a royalty free drum track or something. Like by all means make sure you're having fun with it but people are going to assume that you are what you market yourself as and if you dont take yourself at least somewhat seriously then absolutely no one will
The robots have already won the human-robot wars and we’re all here just trying to please them.
I’m GenX and we were so apathetic in our youth because everything we cared about was repackaged and sold back to us in a sanitized, corporate bastardization of itself for profit. Now those who are coming up are having the authenticity of the early internets (when it was just a bunch of us nerds, geeks, and weirdos finding each other across the world for the first time) repackaged and sold back in a sanitized, corporate bastardization of itself for profit.
But understand that this is an attention-based economy and engagement is currency. The finite resource that this currency indexes to is Time, but the currency itself is internally-generating. With engagement being generated internally it can feel like every day is a “spending spree day” but the Time it’s indexed to is still finite, so we still have to spend our engagement wisely, so spend that engagement on content that is intended to engage you, not the robots.
Sooner or later it’s all going to be AI generating responsive pages to automated search bots and robocalls to voicemails anyway–the human elements will have skipped out of the equation by then.
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I love this illustration because this lyric has been applicable to so many instances in my life that it’s almost a theme, and it’s been there since before Pete Wentz was even born.
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