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you have to be kidding. you do know our species did just fine for 200,000 years, before maternity leave, which is a recent thing. you think humanity will die out if a policy that's maybe 50 years old is cancelled? please tell me you're not serious.

a vast majority of voters are of course going to vote for what benefit them, not the company that employs them -that is not proof of what is right or ethical.

the company doesn't magically pick up the bill. they simply pay all people a little less, while spending more on just the ones with babies. this means people without babies pay for the babies. in no way is that fair. biology is unfair. that doesn't mean you can just pass on the cost to innocent bystanders.

being short is unfair. should i pay for short people?

our species behaves just fine. parents have an extra burden and need to be financially secure to handle a baby. without forcing random others to help with that. because it's unethical, and the term for that is tyranny of the majority. two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

but cool. let's go with your voter idea. let's let the whites vote on whether blacks should be slaves.

parent dungdang 6 years ago

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