I love your last paragraph, Graham. I've long thought we should do away with "Mariage certificates" Which are really nothing more than property rights; to have instead to get a "right to reproduce certificate" too many people worldwide are rotten parents who should never have been allowed to rear a child. People should have to take parenting exams BEFORE they allowed to reproduce. How to enforce? Birth control apparatus installed by a medical technician. Which can only be removed by a medical technician
We wouldn't have to be concerned by trump slimes, mucky musks, voldomyr putins etc. We'd have children who know right from wrong. Personally as long as it isn't a child or another animal with whom you have sex - I don't give a damn. I only care about who can reproduce.
I replied to Jane Baker's comment above that it had sparked a long dormant article, which I shall produce some day when I'm less occupied (even my mum's story has taken a back row of late, sorry). Stromae is a French-speaking performer here in Belgium and produced a hit record a few years ago called Papoutai: a confabulation of "Papa, où t'es?" - Daddy, where are you? It contains the words "Tout le monde sait faire des bébés, mais personne ne sait faire des papas." Everyone knows how to make babies. But no one knows how you make a father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc&list=RDoiKj0Z_Xnjc&start_radio=1&pp=ygUYc3Ryb21hZSBwYXBhb3V0YWkgbHlyaWNzoAcB
I remember the old Blind Date on TV with Cilla Black. One couple of all those got married. It never worked out. Considering that it's amazing how people do get together,only mostly turn out not to like each other and be incompatible. That rather miserable philosopher Schopenhauer wondered at how all his friends,male and female,ended up marrying someone they didn't get oh with,or only with effort,and of course in those days it was for life. My own parents,deeply bonded,but one a True Believer,the other it's all nonsense. How does that happen?
I love your last paragraph, Graham. I've long thought we should do away with "Mariage certificates" Which are really nothing more than property rights; to have instead to get a "right to reproduce certificate" too many people worldwide are rotten parents who should never have been allowed to rear a child. People should have to take parenting exams BEFORE they allowed to reproduce. How to enforce? Birth control apparatus installed by a medical technician. Which can only be removed by a medical technician
We wouldn't have to be concerned by trump slimes, mucky musks, voldomyr putins etc. We'd have children who know right from wrong. Personally as long as it isn't a child or another animal with whom you have sex - I don't give a damn. I only care about who can reproduce.
I replied to Jane Baker's comment above that it had sparked a long dormant article, which I shall produce some day when I'm less occupied (even my mum's story has taken a back row of late, sorry). Stromae is a French-speaking performer here in Belgium and produced a hit record a few years ago called Papoutai: a confabulation of "Papa, où t'es?" - Daddy, where are you? It contains the words "Tout le monde sait faire des bébés, mais personne ne sait faire des papas." Everyone knows how to make babies. But no one knows how you make a father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc&list=RDoiKj0Z_Xnjc&start_radio=1&pp=ygUYc3Ryb21hZSBwYXBhb3V0YWkgbHlyaWNzoAcB
I remember the old Blind Date on TV with Cilla Black. One couple of all those got married. It never worked out. Considering that it's amazing how people do get together,only mostly turn out not to like each other and be incompatible. That rather miserable philosopher Schopenhauer wondered at how all his friends,male and female,ended up marrying someone they didn't get oh with,or only with effort,and of course in those days it was for life. My own parents,deeply bonded,but one a True Believer,the other it's all nonsense. How does that happen?