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While I do agree that many people are unfit to be parents, it just feels wrong to me to impose outright bans on certain people reproducing.
Who are we to judge that somebody will be unfit to raise a child, and who are we to say that they will? I can sit here and say, "Hey, Ben seems like he'd make a great dad," when in fact he may ultimately, for one reason or another, turn out to utterly ruin the child's life. You'd still be allowing for a huge number of potential fuck-ups.
Who are we to say, as previously said in this thread, that all homeless and drug addicts should be sterilized? What, people can't get back on their feet? Once homeless, always homeless? Once a drug addict, always a drug addict? Fuck, Ben, you can't be serious, can you?
Maybe, maybe I can see a case-by-case basis being implemented, but no. Bullshit. I'm sorry, but as much as I like to sit back and complain about how many horrible parents there are, there's absolutely no way to judge who will or won't be a good parent. You could be in the shittiest situation yet still raise a successful child.
I mean, fuck, look at Chris Gardner (the guy Will Smith played in The Pursuit of Happyness). He had custody of his child while he was homeless, living out of church shelters and, of all things, subway bathrooms. Where is he now? CEO with a net worth of $165 million and a son who, when asked about homelessness during his childhood, responds, "I couldn't tell you that we were homeless, I just knew that we were always having to go. So, if anything, I remember us just moving, always moving." Would you have agreed to allow him to be fertile if you knew him when he was homeless and completely down on his luck?
I'm sorry, but to allow others to pass such a broad, sweeping judgment upon someone else is completely asinine.
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