RE: Abortion is bad but not a crime 🤔
You know who's causing the dichotomy? Americans, and "the west" in general.
I feel like any conversation Americans have isn't even about the thing itself anymore. It's more about preserving their underlying dichotomy, the biggest of them all, which is:
Democrats vs Republicans.
"Liberals" vs "Conservative".
So there is no middle ground on any topic anymore. There is only "oh what's their view on it? Great, now we gotta have the opposite."
"They like guns? Well we gotta ban every damn gun. They don't like guns? Well we gotta have guns at every damn place in the country. Oh they want to ban abortion? We want free abortion for every fuckin body. They want free abortion for everybody? We have to stop anyone from getting an abortion under in any circumstance."
Shit show.
Haahahaha.
Very true.
I feel like politics makes people feel like they magically can have strong opinions about things. Like climate change.. how the jet streams work and all that is pretty dull, and it's just a scientific question... people who study science and have done research can have a strong opinion, but regular people don't really have any reason to
kind of like if you asked some other question, like how a tendon connects with a bone or something, people would be like "i dont fucking know, i'm not a doctor"
but when it's political people magically become experts and have a big opinion
And ya, I think you're right.. people thinking they should get free abortions (meaning, other people pay for it.. not actually free lol) is pretty wild.. but it's probably a reaction to other people trying to make it illegal.
like oh okay, then we'll try this
Politics in that sense is basically like removing it from personal and intimate. Overarching, automated one-size solution.
And then people rush to extremes as like a political science strategy.
The strategy might make sense within the "game" of trying to win at politics, but then what happens is people actually think they have that opinion.. like they don't realize they're involved in a game of political battle or whatever, they start to just actually think that way about the topic