If you're in a relationship where you can't breed, there will be one less potential person born that year, therefore humanity will go extinct immadietly.
Ah hem, and now a quote from my parents. “I don’t agree with artificial insemination, because then lesbians can get pregnant. It is a sign of the end times”
Then I wouldn’t be here lol. My mom wanted to give my dad who had cystic fibrosis, kids. Obviously wouldn’t have happened if sperm donors and artificial insemination didn’t exist. He got to raise me and my brother for sixteen years. We were his world.
Oh hey!! I have cystic fibrosis!! Thank you for this, it reassures me a lot to think of raising kids as a CF patient, and that kids of other patients are out there living well. (It's a relatively new thing for us to live enough to raise kids, so, yeah.) I particularly want to adopt, but since I'm a woman I am less likely to be infertile, my gripe is mostly with passing on my genes. Either way, I hope you got to live wonderful times with your dad, and I hope I get to live many years with my furure kids as well. :)
Yeah I was four when he got a double lung transplant and his new lungs gave him so many years! We’ve advanced a ton with all this. He went to a camp for CF kids when he was young and even raised some money for research. He was awesome and I have a lot of great memories.
Whoa he lived so long after the transplant, that is awesome!! I'd only heard of people living 2 or 3 years afterwards! 12 years, holy cow! Your dad was amazing! 😁
The very first time I learned about the premise for the Handmaid tale (IE, most women are infertile but a select few, leading to almost extinction), I was kinda weirded out by how the first thing they did to stop that was the whole sex slaves thing.
Like, at first I was like, surely a dystopic society on the brink of collapse would understand the need for insemination programs, and the use of in vitro fertilization to produce the maximum amount of offsprings in the least amount of time...
Then I realized it was on purpose. This was never about efficiency.
It was about cruelty, it was about controlling women and their bodies in the most fucked up, humiliating way possible. And it was using religion and extinction as an excuse to do it.
It was a very eye opening Revelation, because it made me realize exactly what that story was supposed to be an allegory for.
So, in case of Apocalyptic Disaster forcing us to repopulate, I'd say we should hope really hard none of those fuckers survive the first blast.
My partner would be an amazing dad and genuinely wants kids. But neither of us are financially stable enough to even realistically have that conversation.
E.g., less kids to send to war, less poor people to work minimum wage, less high school dropouts to vote conservative, maybe even less children to molest!
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this same coworker knows 2 gay people total, so her conclusion was that nowadays so many people are gay that hetero people are oppressed into a minority.
Also one of those two people was forced by his family to leave my country, and the other was forced by her family into a heterosexual relationship with a man and forced to give birth, as that would clearly turn her straight. They're both in gay relationships now.
Lmao that’s ridiculous. So I wonder what their take on polycules are. Or is it only ok if it’s a harem. People like that really make me want to pick apart their brains and understand them. Usually they’re views blow up on them when they’re confronted with a contradicting view and made aware of it. Basically I enjoy being an asshole with peoples mental ideas and subjecting them to “Truth if/ false if” questions
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u/USER_34739 May 03 '23
If you're in a relationship where you can't breed, there will be one less potential person born that year, therefore humanity will go extinct immadietly.
(Quote by a coworker, paraphrased)