I feel terrible for everyday folks in Alabama today. (Just caught up on news out of the state, re: embryos now being "minor children" for lawsuit purposes.)
It's so easy to say "Alabama is a backwater, a lost cause", but most people there are just trying to get by, and there's so little hope right now of them being able to defend against the awful few striving to make the lives of women, families, and queer people even harder.
We could have built *such* a kinder world.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ruling-ivf/72662533007/
Maybe they should get the hell out of Hellabama.
Considering the poverty rate in the state, it's not feasible for many families and individuals hit hardest by this BS - but I hear you, McFate. Would that there were easier solutions to scummy politics.
As I truly enjoy reminding people, an eleven-year-old walked from Ukraine to Estonia in mid-winter.
The only thing making it "unfeasible" is a lack of will.
I'm sure you're aware of how many people take perilous journeys across South and Central America to arrive at the US border as well, but "willpower" alone doesn't grant all of them safe arrival, let alone entry to a better life.
I understand that it's easier to blame individuals than address systemic failures, though. This is false attribution bias, but extremely common in our world.
I'm sure you understand that this observation has about zero relevance when it comes to a question of moving from one US state to another one.
Not to mention that it's a lot less effort to settle into the status quo and tell yourself that you'll just wait till someone "fixes" the "system".
Now on that, we agree! False attribution bias doesn't mean that individual humans don't still have a responsibility - and we certainly can't expect the system to change all on its own.
But the world is a complex place, and there are *many* factors informing our ability to improve our individual lives.
I'm sorry, when you claim "false attribution" you're also claiming that no person possesses sufficient agency to improve their situation.
Incorrect assumption. I was responding to your comments alone.
Without actually responding to them.
This is like a two-pack-a-day smoker insisting that the only problem he's got is that they put too much nicotine in cigarettes and that he'll quit just as soon as they stop keeping him addicted.
I did respond to them, with my illustration of how global migration is not sufficient to guarantee a better life. Willpower alone does not suffice for many, many migrants the world over.
But now you're getting into silly hyperbole. I admire how much you post in response to a lot of political BS in your area, and I appreciate that doing so habituates a certain combative attitude, but it's really not necessary.
We can just have a chat without leaping to personal attack.
But none of this has anything at all to do with "global migration".
You're going to need to point out where I "personally attacked" you. I don't believe I've done anything of the sort, that's a cheap imputation to make, and if you can't stand disagreement without feeling "attacked", block me.
Again, *you* raised walking from Ukraine to Estonia (global migration). I responded to *that* point by illustrating that global migration doesn't yield good results across the board, so more than willpower is often required.
And reiterated that fact when you claimed that my response wasn't actually responding to the point you'd made when mentioning a child walking from Ukraine to Estonia.
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