So apparently today the thing that has me screaming is living in a society built on hurting kids.
Not just child sexual abuse.
Every kind of harm & exploitation.
Why am I not having kids? Well, one reason is that I feel like there are plenty of kids in the world *already* for me to worry about, & there will always be more.
Maybe this is part of what upsets the right wing folks when childless people are concerned about the welfare of kids.
You're not supposed to worry about "other people's kids" (otherwise known as human beings with their own rights).
At BEST you're only supposed to worry about your kids, but even then, you're supposed to worry about competing for things, not their fucking well-being as individuals.
You're not supposed to look at a child & see a person. You're supposed to see *property*.
A childless adult concerned about the rights & needs of children has no "skin in the game" in their minds. If you *aren't* a child, & you don't have children of your own, then how does it affect you if children are suffering?
It does actually affect me in a number of ways, but even if it didn't, what the fuck? Is the question they are asking "why do you care about human beings?" or is it "why do you think children are human beings?"
Trick question! It's both.
@artemis
The number of times I've said that you shouldn't beat up children, and that doing so only teaches them that violence is how to solve problems, only to be asked "do you have any children?"
No, but I remember being one. Unlike every freaking adult around me, who grew fully formed out of stone like a LOTR dwarf, apparently.
Artemis
Leeloo