To think WTAF at ‘Bonk for Britain?’

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Anyone seen this? It’s apparently based on a policy from (far right) Hungary where the media were saying that too many women were going to university and thus wouldn’t be having kids!

www.thesun.co.uk/news/20048496/women-tax-cuts-have-children/amp/

Your words, that I replied to, are right there. Yes, they do tie in, with the word ‘purpose’. I did not state that tax breaks were fascist, I stated that incentivizing breeding as a woman’s purpose or patriotic duty are fascist ideas. They are. I even provided examples from recent history.

Evolution has no purpose. It simply is. Same as gravity. Purpose is something human being ascribe.

if you’re sick of me, or ‘people like me’ then by all means do not engage. You are not, in fact, obliged to.

It was clear what I was talking about but you saw a word you could use to pretend I'd said something I hadn't, and then create a strawman so you could knock it down. Then tell me if I don't like it, I shouldn't even engage in the conversation. Gaslighting bullshit.

Like I said, try having some integrity.

You are a far right conspiracy theorist and your views should not be normalised on fucking Mumsnet. End of.

The only government in the EU that seems worse than the recent UK government is Hungary's. This adds to it.

Why do you think I'm

1. far right?
2. a conspiracy theorist?

Honestly these are such lazy terms that mean very little anymore. Don't agree with a statement? Must be far right. Didn't understand content of what was being asked? Must be a conspiracy theorist...🤨

Hate to break it to you, but thats all every living being on the planet is here to do, replicate, then die. Circle of life. You might not like it, but it is what it is.

I've chosen not to have children. Does that mean my existence is pointless?

Thats up to you, obviously, but ultimately, what I said is correct, of course we all contribute in other ways, not saying we don't, look at Issac Newton. He never married or had children, but made amazing contributions. It still doesn't change the reality that these are the biological facts of every living thing. We live,we grow, we reproduce, we die.

Well, not quite. ‘Here to do’ suggests design, purpose as opposed to random chance. Although we do of course all reproduce, whether we have children or not.

it’s also infinitely more complicated than that anyway, not least because of natural variation and our ability to reason. Some other species of animal practice abortion and infanticide, their actions determined by their environment. Human beings, for as long as we have existed, have done the same. The lack of desire to have children doesn’t come from outside of ourselves either, all behaviours we exhibit reflect our individual chemistries and their interplay with our environments.