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Are you saying it's okay to take the life of another human because you can chose whether to kill it or not?

Hi anon!

Thanks for the input :) There’s no easy answer, I’m afraid. It depends what model of ethics you follow (deontology, consequentialism), but it is never black or white, sadly.

Have you ever heard of the trolley problem?

Imagine this: A train is running uncontrollably down the tracks. No brakes. Sadly, there are 5 people chained the tracks, who will be killed unless you flick a switch, which will change the train onto tracks that have 3 people chained to the tracks.

Either 5 people get killed, or you become responsible for the death of 3 innocent people by flicking this switch.

So, is it alright to take the lives of these humans because you can choose whether they are killed or not? Is it logical to spare some lives by killing 3 people instead of 5?

There’s no easy answer, I’m afraid :( Should you be allowed to decide what happens to your body? Absolutely. Is it wrong to abort babies, essentially killing them? Some people think so. There’s no easy answer, but I believe that we should be allowed to decide what happens to our bodies. Perhaps the answer is educate youngsters on sexuality and pregnancies, but in some cases, pregnancy will occur no matter how much protection you use - these are the cases that I think abortion should be acceptable for, being the next step from emergency contraceptives.

I hope this helped at all :)

Thanks for the question, anon! :)

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

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I’m high functioning! Just ask all of my neurotypical friends! I’m high functioning… until I misplace something. Or I hear a loud noise. Or I reach an unknown area of the social script. Or I can’t stop feeling an unpleasant tactile sensation. Or someone treats me badly. Or my electronics won’t work. Or I’m hungry. Or I’m tired. Or I don’t have a solution for someone else’s pain. Or I have to engage with a task without being given time to analyze it. Or I’m not permitted to use a familiar system to handle a situation. Or things just don’t make sense. Or I’ve just been through too much in the past five minutes. Hour. Day. Week. I’m not high functioning. That’s just a term neurotypical folk use to not acknowledge or straight up minimalize my issues on the occasions that I manage to avoid all of the above.

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