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I love rocks that look extremely like someone just tested the demon blade on them

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Hi! Looks like this has reached the anti-abortion crowd, so lemme clarify a bit:

What I MEANT to say was that “people are suffering” + “kill those who are struggling most” = “net ratio of Suffering:Thriving shows rise in thriving and a reduction in suffering”, but it is still the wrong answer because it is like:

kind of like how “you can hold your breath for the rest of your life” is true but ONLY if you’re chill with dying in the following 4 minutes. It forgoes the INTENT in favour of TECHNICALITY.

Now, if I was talking about a human embryo in this scenario, I would be unilaterally saying that the embryo is the subject of suffering. It is not. I don’t know how to science this out for you but it doesn’t have a brain. And also the thing a lot of people tout to be a “heartbeat” is actually blood flow from the umbilical cord. So to a certain point, one could argue that it has all the capacity for pain and suffering as a tumour- which is, classically speaking, more of a burden for the HOST than anything.

And on top of that, my point- the nuance implied- was that the ROUTE we should be taking to reduce suffering is not letting the ill, disabled, elderly, and homeless die so the rest of us more privileged can wash our hands and not think about them anymore. The route to reduce suffering is not reduce those who CAN suffer, but reduce the suffering itself, because the problem is not the PEOPLE WHO CAN FEEL, but the SOURCE OF THE FEELING.

Which is to say- and if you are anti-abortion and skipped all of the above then this is the part where you should tune back in- that the only way to reduce suffering is to minimize opportunities for suffering to take hold.

I understand why abortion is seen as immoral. I understand why it’s seen as disgusting. The idea of a baby dying doesn’t make me happy- I don’t think that’s what abortion is, but if you do, then I understand that- but think of it this way.

Someone desperately wants to keep their baby, but it’s an ectopic pregnancy. It will not be born. There is nothing you can do to make it survive to term and emerge into the world as a baby. It will half-form and then die, and then the parent will get sick, and then they may die.

Removing that doomed embryo before it can think and feel is a reduction of suffering.

Maybe you think abortion is murder. Maybe you’re even against it in life-threatening cases. I’m probably not going to change your mind on that. That is what it is, I can’t fight you and I’m not going to try.

But if you can’t stop the suffering there, you have to go back further.

You can’t stop people having sex. You can’t stop sexual assault. Those are not things you can control, not entirely. So sex will happen, and the more sex, the more pregnancies.

So how do you stop pregnancies?

You educate the public on contraception. Yiu can’t stop them having sex, but if they don’t want a pregnancy, they’ll do what they can to avoid one on their own with the right tools.

You hand out free condoms. You hand out lube so the condoms don’t break. You support accessible health clinics where people who WANT children can get fertility tests done so it’s not too late when they find out they can’t carry to term. You fund research into more effective birth control. You fund resources for struggling young parents who WANT their pregnancy but can’t afford a child.

You don’t like abortion? Cool. I don’t like unwanted or life-threatening pregnancy. You know what we can shake hands on? Childcare and medical aid.

So MY question is, for the love of god and all that is holy, why so many of you are wasting your time and money and energy standing on the pavement telling people they’re going to hell for the situation they’re in when you COULD be preventing the situation before it happens?

Why are you pulling the heads off weeds when you could just as easily attack it at the root before it’s big enough to spread?

I’m pro-choice. I’ll never not be. But I’ll happily work side by side with a pro-lifer at a soup kitchen, or at a women’s shelter, or at a fundraiser for single mothers, or foster children, or after-school daycare.

My POINT was, setting your yard on fire reduces weeds, but it also reduces your garden. If you want something gone, attack it at the root.

Otherwise you’re just wasting time.

I’m not sure the precise number of people I need to say this to but the answer to “reduce human suffering” is not “destroy suffering humans” much in the same way that setting your math test on fire in the exam room does not assure you 0% wrong answers and an A+ by default

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If enough people pick these up it’ll lose it’s distinctive print

What sorta shit do you say then to warrant a Teaboot-dictionary?

I mean if you want a full list of things I cannot make myself stop repeating

Play shitty games win shitty prizes

I’m too sexy for this

I’m never gonna die

Sometimes the trash takes itself out

Kiss my entire ass

I’m going to light this entire building on fire

I’m going to commit arson

Come on darlin you got this

I really wish I was the kind of person who wanted to do that

I’m going home to take a floor nap

I lost my pants again

My baby boy (Ollie)

I’m going to do science about this

Go eat a butt

(In a haughty, defensive tone) I have a liberal arts degree (specific to when I lack common general knowledge about something)

“No” (when someone asks me to do something very simple, as I visibly go to do it for them)

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home sick in bed, tell me a story 🥺🥺🥺

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fist bumb

What sorta shit do you say then to warrant a Teaboot-dictionary?

I mean if you want a full list of things I cannot make myself stop repeating

Play shitty games win shitty prizes

I’m too sexy for this

I’m never gonna die

Sometimes the trash takes itself out

Kiss my entire ass

I’m going to light this entire building on fire

I’m going to commit arson

Come on darlin you got this

I really wish I was the kind of person who wanted to do that

I’m going home to take a floor nap

I lost my pants again

My baby boy (Ollie)

I’m going to do science about this

Go eat a butt

(In a haughty, defensive tone) I have a liberal arts degree (specific to when I lack common general knowledge about something)

“No” (when someone asks me to do something very simple, as I visibly go to do it for them)

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More than I’d like to admit

What sorta shit do you say then to warrant a Teaboot-dictionary?

I mean if you want a full list of things I cannot make myself stop repeating

Play shitty games win shitty prizes

I’m too sexy for this

I’m never gonna die

Sometimes the trash takes itself out

Kiss my entire ass

I’m going to light this entire building on fire

I’m going to commit arson

Come on darlin you got this

I really wish I was the kind of person who wanted to do that

I’m going home to take a floor nap

I lost my pants again

My baby boy (Ollie)

I’m going to do science about this

Go eat a butt

(In a haughty, defensive tone) I have a liberal arts degree (specific to when I lack common general knowledge about something)

“No” (when someone asks me to do something very simple, as I visibly go to do it for them)

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What sorta shit do you say then to warrant a Teaboot-dictionary?

I mean if you want a full list of things I cannot make myself stop repeating

Play shitty games win shitty prizes

I’m too sexy for this

I’m never gonna die

Sometimes the trash takes itself out

Kiss my entire ass

I’m going to light this entire building on fire

I’m going to commit arson

Come on darlin you got this

I really wish I was the kind of person who wanted to do that

I’m going home to take a floor nap

I lost my pants again

My baby boy (Ollie)

I’m going to do science about this

Go eat a butt

(In a haughty, defensive tone) I have a liberal arts degree (specific to when I lack common general knowledge about something)

“No” (when someone asks me to do something very simple, as I visibly go to do it for them)

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I cannot claim credit for any of these things btw. I cannot imagine I was the first to say them or recall where I heard them from. But the top of the list apparently includes

“Sounds like a ‘you’ problem” - When someone is whining about circumstances they created that nobody else has control over

“Sometimes the trash takes itself out” - When someone is clearly toxic and incompetent to the point that they’re sabotaging themselves and you don’t even have to do anything to get rid of them

“Play shitty games, win shitty prizes” - When someone fucks around and finds out and nobody is surprised except them

“I’m smart I’m sexy and I’m never gonna die” - To pump myself up before doing something scary or stupid

“Is this ‘condolences’ or ‘congratulations’?” - When someone mentions a pregnancy, a death, a large financial choice, or a breakup with no clear discernible tone

I’ve recently been informed that not only has my mother been keeping a list of the stupid shit I say when things hit the fan- she has now brought them to work and spread them amongst the company, and they now refer to these as “me”-isms

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I’ve recently been informed that not only has my mother been keeping a list of the stupid shit I say when things hit the fan- she has now brought them to work and spread them amongst the company, and they now refer to these as “me”-isms

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What is Ollie's current favorite crime? (Also, how's oven mitt wrasslin' going?)

Since he has learned he can ask for wrassle time, all he wants in the whole wide world is wrassle time. It is his new favourite thing

His favourite SIN is shitting in the litter box and not covering it so it stinks up the whole house. His favourite CRIME is constant begging and food theft

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May I request an Ollie in this trying time?

0.02 seconds before Bites My Hands 🩷🫠💕

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what if American Psycho was wet?

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When I was in school a friend of mine said when he died he wanted someone to change his Facebook status to “chilling with Jesus” but then he got hit by a car and actually died and I couldn’t do anything to his account but at his funeral there was a book visitors could write their goodbyes in and so I wrote “chilling with Jesus” because I thought that’d make him laugh, but in hindsight I realize there is a good chance his parents read that later and thought there was just one gigantic asshole being flippant about it, but in DOUBLE hindsight, he would have laughed his ass off at my massive fail, so. RIP bud, hope you and Jeezy boy are loving this

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checkmate bigots

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being 5'7" is so fucked. AND i'm a top. i suffer more than you could ever know.

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was just showing tadpoles to a child and asked "do you know what these are?" and he excitedly shouted "STINGRAYS!" I said that's a great guess because they are shaped a lot like stingrays, but I told him they're tadpoles and that they'll grow up to be a different animal that lives in the water around here, and "do you know what tadpoles turn into?" and his eyes lit up and he said "STRINGRAYS!"

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