What do you wish had never been invented?

[Soubriquet]

For me it’s things like guns/bombs/auto rifles and stuff like that.

Killing someone with a sword or knife is one thing (back in ancient times). You actually had to get your hands dirty and it could make people reconsider but guns? One pull of a trigger and you can kill many in a blink of an eye without thinking twice

Smartphones. Evil machines.

(Sent from my smartphone).

Reality TV

Football. Turns men into obnoxious little boys.
Lip fillers. Just fugly.
Zero hours contracts. Self-explanatory, I imagine.

Email

But presumably if that life has to be taken at all you'd rather it was in the most humane way possible, and not via a sharp implement in a dirty room, like in the 60s? Or Kermit Gosnell style?

Sorry to be dark, but outlawing abortion doesn't only affect the mother. In a worst case scenario it can subject the unborn child to horrendous suffering too.

@imtheholidayarmadillo I wouldn't describe the surgical amputation of limbs, and crushing of a skull to be a humane way of taking human life, such barbaric practices were outlawed for those facing the death penalty in England during the 17th century.

Agreed, and it’s impacting women who are dying even when they are pregnant with much wanted babies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

or 13-year-old rape victim, who was unable to access an abortion had to have the baby. Apparently, we only care about some children’s lives:

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/mississippi-abortion-ban-girl-raped-gives-birth

Nuclear bomb

I guess because we will all pay in the end when the UPF health timebomb explodes.

Because ordinary people are subsidising companies to hire people they can't actually afford to hire.

I wouldn't either, and I never said I was actively pro abortion. It's problematic. But would you really prefer that a baby be born alive, late term, and then murdered by having its spinal cord severed? Or born alive and left in a skip? Or born alive and abused horribly because it wasn't wanted in the first place?

All I'm saying is that outlawing abortion isn't without its problems.

Capitalism

Religion

Everything posted in this thread comes down to one or the other of these things.

Religion

Clicky pens!