Eldest Daughter Support Line

I'm not even talking about in the 'oh thats not REAL capitalism' kind of way. I mean I dont recall any indication of private enterprise. The district workers labor for the government in the capital. Resources and rations are centralized and dolled out by the government. Wealth and privileged come not from business, but from ones proximity(literal or metaphorical) to the capital.

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

That is straight up eugenics. To say some lives aren't worth living or would be better off not being here. That ideology implies that if it were up to YOU, people like me or people in worse conditions would not exist. Don't look at me, I'm just drawing the only logical conclusion here. "Oh but the quality of life-" Okay, so?

If we're really gonna go with quality of life as an argument, then this opens up so many other potholes because where do you draw the line with 'quality of life'? Where even is it? All life has a bad quality to it because its just life. So where do you draw the line? Even better question---what makes YOU a good candidate to even come to such a conclusion?

Because if we were to actually implement this thinking into everyday life handling such a topic, then the line of what gets classified as 'quality of life' is gonna get shorter and shorter throughout the years until it's just plain eugenics---which is what you guys are arguing for whether you intend it or not.

As a neurodivergent man married to a neurodivergent woman with neurodivergent offspring, I find the eugenicists/abortion stans to be more than a little threatening. Some of their rhetoric feels like they wouldn't be too bothered with killing me and people like me.

Should I have been allowed to be born? To live past infancy? To marry? To become a father?

I'd like to throw in a couple of quotes from the Star Trek: TNG episode "The Masterpiece Society" in which the Enterprise crew has to deal with a "perfect" genetically engineered society.

Hannah Bates: "It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of disabilities."

Geordi La Forge: "Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I might have something to contribute?"

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Jean Luc Picard: "They've managed to turn a dubious scientific endeavor into dogma."

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Jean Luc Picard: "They've given away their Humanity with this genetic manipulation. Many of the qualities that they breed out – the uncertainty, self-discovery, the unknown – these are many of the qualities that make life worth living. Well, at least to me. I wouldn't want to live my life knowing that my future was written, that my boundaries had been already set."

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