[split] Ethics - parental responsibility re: children

[Rev. Rye]

Maybe I could qualify the premise, say it's not automatically a bad thing, but that it does become one when one decides to bring a child into the world recklessly, without knowing how to care for it and/or knowing that you're going to doom it to a bad life with little chance of rising above it all and/or if you're not going to be prepared to prioritise its well-being over yours.

I think you'd find broad agreement on that one - varying levels of competence, but broad agreement.

And if this video by a prominent pro-life org is any indication, I suspect there might be a lot more disagreement than you might think.





And notice how, for all these attempts at satire, mocking these men who don't want to be fathers, they fail to see that if they're really that irresponsible, they probably shouldn't be forced to take care a kid. The description for the video says that "abortion primarily benefits selfish, childish men and fuels the abuse of women and the deaths of children," but their solution is no solution. Either they're utter Pollyannas who think that the only thing keeping these men from being good parents is Roe v. Wade still being on the books or they don't grant that premise that you say should bring broad agreement.