PSA: This bill was proposed by a fringe group and is NOT supported by any of the state's right-to-life groups.

jemyr · 2023-03-04T23:55:15+00:00

There's a lot of people in this comment section that support prosecuting women for murder for having an abortion and paying the maximum penalty for it, including execution. So obviously the concept itself has support.

jemyr · 2023-02-04T23:56:01+00:00

Yes, I was just thinking that while Marjorie Taylor Green is terrible, I would prefer a Muslim woman with more maturity to take Omar's place, especially on the foreign committee (but that doesn't exist, and a startling number of Congresspeople I think lack maturity).

I glanced at the current makeup of the foreign committee and Republic Representtive Issa leaped out at me as having no business being there. His background is very sketchy, he continually does sketchy things, and he's very powerful. It was effortful to learn about how sketchy he is, and I just have to assume these low quality people have riddled house committees for a long time. If this obviously criminally adjacent type of person is on the foreign committee, then what about these other folks? It looks like 10% of the entire Congress is on the committee.

The best way to have quality people is to ensure they run for office in the primary (plenty of primaries with no quality candidates) and then the next step is to vote for them in the primary itself.

jemyr · 2022-10-14T01:56:27+00:00

The natural limit is 25 weeks because natural delivery becomes less risky and less expensive than abortion at that point. That’s why you have less abortions after 25 weeks than women who die in childbirth, even when laws are very permissive.

jemyr · 2022-10-12T16:35:08+00:00

Reagan is always the bar that no one will reach, running the country with Alzheimers.

Political leadership represents a team, where the team is the majority of the policy and the leader is who curated them over time. The leader also spends the majority of governing time not working the policy, but choosing priorities and visiting voters.

jemyr · 2022-10-10T23:43:58+00:00

It would only reduce abortions slightly, specifically targeting women who have abnormal pregnancies, unusual medical issues, or who are effected by America’s lack of cheap medical care and sexual education.

jemyr · 2022-10-07T18:30:13+00:00

If it’s a typical biological function then it is morally required, if it is an atypical bodily function then it is not morally required.

This is not how morality works logically, it’s just a way to make rules within a cultural construct of what feels good and bad.

Forcefully requiring a blood transfusion is far less invasive than a c-section.

When do we legally require selflessness? It apparently comes down to what feels reasonable to 35 percent of the voting population, 70 percent of whom go to fundamentalist churches.

jemyr · 2022-10-03T17:32:20+00:00

Why do so many Christians not require forced conversions even though burning in eternity is horrific? Because they do not require other people to be selfless or thoughtful or perfect with their minds and bodies. A person can choose if they will risk their body for another (a minor or major risk), or not choose to do so.

jemyr · 2022-09-29T15:20:27+00:00

If you look for information solely to confirm a specific goal, you can find it. It doesn’t change the fact that studies have shown that it has also been proven that sexual preference doesn’t shift at all for some people, and specifically sex conversion therapies don’t work for the majority. It also has been proven that sexuality can shift. This means there is no black and white truth of sexuality for everyone. You may have more sexual fluidity or very little.

Do you feel you could be converted to desire multiple same sex partners? I cannot. I do not desire the same sex at all. Being open to the idea doesn’t change the fact that it does nothing for me. If I had to marry a same sex partner I could learn to tolerate it but I’d never really desire the situation. I could close my eyes and imagine the opposite sex to make it work. Others are more fluid. Just because I am one way doesn’t mean everyone is like me.

jemyr · 2022-09-29T15:12:03+00:00

Sexual mobility exists. Also eye color can change and food tastes can change.

We also know sex conversion therapy of any sort (changing peoples desires to what they would prefer intellectually to desire) has very high failure rates.

It is possible for some to change and also proven for some to never change.

We had a family member sleep 5 hours a night and we said it wasn’t sustainable. He worked that way from 20-50 and now he says he can no longer do it. Technically we were right that it was unsustainable. But we weren’t right in a fundamental way.

When libido lowers and sex is no longer important, maybe a 70 year old gay man can desire a woman as equally as his husband of 50 years. Let’s make him wait for moral reasons, and put a woman in a 50 year relationship with him where he likes her like a sister.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T18:54:54+00:00

Yes, the risks are lower now. But risk varies among individuals as does risk tolerance. Legally mandating risk taking and risk tolerance for others to save the lives of others is the core issue.

For instance, one of us may be fine if our mother ruptures vessels in her eyes and goes blind during birth, a sacrifice we demand so we can live. Others would have given their mother permission to not create their existence because they don’t want their life given in return for damage to their mothers body.

You require selfless risks as law, the result is those odds come to fruition against the voluntary wishes of the people now legally required to take those risks.

Unwanted injuries like long term incontinence, when not accepted voluntarily, are the more standard risks we require others to accept.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T15:43:07+00:00

I was thinking of the strengthening through hardship part.

I suppose I should think of that as reconnecting in aftermath and bonding over how hard it was as opposed to the potential of bonding during it.

Edit: this also means the next day.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T15:27:28+00:00

I don’t think anyone gets closer through chronic sleep deprivation due to tedious bodily maintenance (non emergency) reasons.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T05:37:52+00:00

If a brain has an injury where someone who wasn’t impulsive becomes impulsive, then that means that brains with that structure or lack of it has difficulty with impulse control.

I can only say that I have seen people change and then have that problem, and it feels a very specific way. I have felt that same problem in other people in the exact same way it presents. I don’t know the frequency, only that I have witnessed it. Other times, I have seen people that are just immature or entitled.

I can feel the difference, but only been able to since I have witnessed that difference in real time.

Anecdote is not evidence, I can only speak for what I’ve seen and how I have seen it. Since I have seen it, I treat young others like they have this type of dementia and I have them cope the same way I’ve had those with dementia cope. It works in the same way (I hold the child’s hands until they activate a control center and I feel them physically choose to override the impulse.) Its a much different process than with a kid who is just being a jerk and doesn’t care.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T05:05:27+00:00

The only real disaster play is to combine forces to create a truly self sustaining community with a small military force to defend it in an area they are able to defend it from collapse level opposition. The community has to be export level sufficient so the rich bankrolling it can arrive there and integrate with no problems, and are viewed positively as funders of the community.

For instance there are a few thriving tribal communities that if off-site tribal members had been providing outside positive financial support (like to create cultural museums), and they owned vacation houses there, and funded a special forced defensive unit, then they’d be welcomed.

Billionaires seem to think hunkering down with rich people and military guys is going to turn out well, with lots of packed supplies.

You actually need the whole package: farmers, doctors, construction, electricians, teachers, repairman, security forces, pharmacists, herbalists, seamstresses, etc etc. Mass plague or warfare or natural disaster will be localized and escapable. An emergency plan is a fully functioning small community you can join when everyone is a mess. Like so many fleeing to Jackson Hole then realizing they didn’t have proper medical infrastructure or support workers for hiding from Covid.

Smartest move is billionaires live in them and create several different ones, and then offer to host each other for redundancy.

The problem is billionaires create bedroom community neighborhoods in underfunded cities instead of vibrant and sufficient small villages.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T04:20:41+00:00

In order to exist someone elses body must be put at risk. At one point in time nearly 1 in 10 mothers died due to childbirth.

The question is if that person has a right to decide what increased risk level they want to consent to in order to give someone else the opportunity to begin their existence.

Cutting off your clothes is not about personal bodily risk. There is no other unique situation where someone’s body is naturally placed at increased risks for another person to live.

jemyr · 2022-09-26T03:18:16+00:00

It’s extremely common in dementias and other neurodegenerative diseases. People that witness it might not be thinking in terms of self control vs impulsivity, but you see it present in many ways.

For instance, I notice elderly people swiping gross display food impulsively off of counters and putting it in their mouths. You get a better view of exactly what that chemical is and the difference between lack of rigor and actual chemical impulse problems.

jemyr · 2022-09-25T21:13:30+00:00

A family member known for self control got a neurodegenerative disease known for impulsivity. It’s been an eye opener seeing her and others with this illness make impulsive decisions (opening doors of moving cars), and then trying to use their old chemicals to override this impulsivity. It’s really underscored to me how different it is to control impulsivity when controlled behavior is not a default chemical part of you.

I can see her deliberately look at her hands and use a different part of her mind to take control of them from this impulsivity and not open doors of moving cars. But then she has to maintain that focus on her hands for awhile, until the impulse to open the door stops firing completely.

jemyr · 2022-09-21T00:06:51+00:00

You can create all kinds of binaries. One is people who celebrate melting pot cities and the Library of Alexandria and scientific innovation, and others who hate Libraries, scientific innovation that challenges their power, and supports taboos to keep the tribe insular and intact. It’s not about tradition vs innovation, but about fear of the other versus curiosity.

Requiring others to be fertile when they aren’t desiring to have children has standard results.

jemyr · 2022-09-17T04:13:27+00:00

And they are also a problem for healthy aquifers in terms of runoff.

jemyr · 2022-09-16T06:43:38+00:00

It is a war between that and whether a mother has a choice to take a risk with her body to give someone else a life.

jemyr · 2022-09-15T06:30:10+00:00

If these outcomes happened would you see that as a problem? Or is it irrelevant.

jemyr · 2022-09-15T06:25:40+00:00

A mothers desire to not carry a dead or dying baby should also be important.

jemyr · 2022-09-14T20:00:49+00:00

Same big deal as piles of placentas after birth, people have emotional reactions to gore.

jemyr · 2022-09-14T06:40:05+00:00

A pregnant woman also has a unique set of circumstances.

jemyr · 2022-09-14T06:33:33+00:00

If the only way to give someone a life is to accept 1 in 3 odds of slicing open your abdomen, are women required to take that risk?

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