• Rednax@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I fully agree. I also think it is a terrible way of improving the number of children. And they should focus on improving conditions for the poorest half of the population a lot more.

    But that doesn’t mean I think the idea is so abhorent that I would be insulted by receiving the letter. (Ok, I personally would, but that is because I’m not a woman.) I’m fine with them sending the letter. Heck, pointing out free healthcare options is great! By all means: let women know what their options are.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      For me such a letter is like somebody who has wipped you across your back your whole life offering you some bandages.

      Not only is it profound hypocrisy that the people fucking up young people’s lives are passing themselves as good guys, it’s also an attempt at offsetting the side effects for those very people of their own nasty behavior towards others with a self-serving “solution” for the behavior changes all that nastiness causes on others, to avoid the real solution which is to stop that nasty behavior.

      “You’ll keep on fleecing you but here’s a way reduce the side effects for us by letting you keep on having kids for us to fleece”.

      If one looks at it from a grander strategical point of view, this shit is profoundly insulting.