Daddy Nobucks: When Involuntary Fathers Are Forced to Foot The Bill
Will anyone using the tired “oh those poor poor men who were forced to have sex…” line of thinking please address the example she sites in her originial post? The victim of statutory rape being forced to pay child support? How about girl who had oral sex with a guy and then used his sperm to impregnate herself and win support after the fact?
Someone please tell me how right it is that these people pay support for the rest of their lives. Because every man should assume that if a woman is anywhere near sperm she will do anything in her power to get herself pregnant and ‘he should have just been more careful’?
I’m eager to see the suspension of logic and ad hominem attacks in each reply.
And AST, that is the WORST form of argument I can possibly think of. Let’s break it down. It was tough for women in the past. Some men made it tough for them.
They’re dead now.
So let’s wrong an entirely new class of people who had NOTHING to do with the original problem. We’ll give the benefits to people who never really suffered the old problems but it will make us FEEL so much better about ‘our guilty pasts’.
It’s just a cosmic way of saying that two wrongs make a right. We’ll do to them what they did to you. Not because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s payback for all those historical wrongs you’re ancestors suffered.
Equality is equality is equality. What you’re advocating isn’t equality so much as discrimination in your favor. And discrimination is discrimination no matter how much you torure logic or the historical record to get the outcome you desire.
