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The question I end up with is whether this behavior is actually evolutionarily hardwired, or whether it's learned. It's easy to assume that because it's chimpanzees, it must be hardwired, because we tend to think humans are super duper exceptionally expemt from evolutionary pressures, and all...

Yet one more case of you failing to read for comprehension, I guess. I mean, the very first sentence is the meat of my point, and doesn't address any specific toys. Someone with a high-school level of comprehension would understand that the second sentence involves relatable examples of the...

Not a single poster in this thread supports abortion bans, so you're a dog with an imaginary bone.

What? Your post doesn't make sense.

You know what? Your rhetoric is tiring, and it's also demonstrably fucking false. For decades of my life, we had pretty consistent and standard abortion laws throughout the entire country. For the majority of my life, abortion was legal within the first two trimesters, and was illegal during...

:unsure: I'm actually not keen on greenlighting oppositional countries taking over as proxy governments for some of our nearest neighbors. France - we can let France do it. Or maybe Portugal. Singapore might be a good choice.

I'm curious why anyone thinks that US politicians should meddle in the governments of foreign countries to the extent that would be needed to actually address those root causes. The US has a pretty poor track record when it comes to "improving" the governance of other countries, and we are...

I want to meet this person with fingers on their feet... and we're going to need more feet while we're at it. I personally know several UK citizens who want US style gun rights. Granted, that's only a handful of people that I know out of several million citizens... but still. Just because you...

It's not in the air, it's in the internet. Social media gives everyone a voice, while also allowing for such intense selection that outside views are severely muted. This creates very real echo chambers, in which a small number of real people amplify each other's absurd views so loudly that...

What do you believe actually DOES address the problem? What do you think would actually fix this, in a way that is reasonable and feasible, and doesn't massively detriment other people? I add the last requirement because hypothetically, the problem could be "solved" by the government taking...

Jarhyn was making the recommendation that we as a society should have areas designated for people who want to be lawless anarchists, but still be supported by society and have their needs seen to. So basically, an enclave for antisocial outlaws to be supported at everyone else's expense. You...

IIRC, there is a fairly well established tendency for girls to gravitate toward play that involves nurturing, and for boys to gravitate toward play that involves aggression. Girls are more inclined generally to be interested in playing with dolls, playing house, etc. Boys are more inclined to...

Ahem...

Living in a society means abiding by some minimum of social contract for behavior and communal benefit. Expecting that some portion of people within our society should be supported by the society while being exempted from that social contract is something I don't support. By all means...

Gay marriages don't raise the rates at all. It's irrelevant, and even way back when a bunch of idiots were insisting it was a horrible sinful evil thing... from personal experience, insurance companies just didn't give a fuck. It doesn't make any difference.

You claimed that 1) nobody gets third trimester abortions, and 2) no doctor would do it because it's unethical. You claimed it doesn't happen at all - and you proceeded to carry on and on about how it's a non-issue. But the actual reality is that it DOES happen. Those two women didn't know...

JFC. My position, which I have stated very clearly multiple times is that abortion should be completely legal at the mother's discretion and with no legal barriers within the first two trimesters; in the third trimester it should be illegal except in cases where it's medically justified due to...

False. It means fewer pregnancies - but only for gay men. Lesbians frequently get artificial insemination and thus incur pregnancy costs. Gay men adopt or purchase surrogates with increasing regularity.

Well... there are several noted in this research study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321603/ Of the 28 women interviewed, they fell into two thematic groups: Those who gained new information in the third trimester, and those who faced barriers to obtaining an earlier...

It's more likely to be employers bitching about gay marriage than insurance companies. Employers would be required to offer spousal coverage to people who would otherwise not qualify - and that costs the employer money since they almost always subsidize the premiums in some way. The insurer...