I'm Sick of the Michelle Duggar Posts Trashing a Woman for the Children she Produces!

[enki23]

190. Oh, bullshit.

Yeah, the woman has a theoretical freedom to do what she wants. That doesn't mean that we have to pretend not to notice that she's a delusional nutbag, or that her (and her husband's!) reproductive behavior, if very many people engaged in it, would lead to greater suffering all over the world.

Their behavior is"ok" only so long as it's rare. If too many people took that particular advantage of their "freedom," then something very bad, probably lots of very bad things, would occur that would trivialize any patting-on-the-back we give ourselves for blathering on about their freedom to maximize their fucking litter size. There is not getting around that one. That family engages in a very real sort of malignant selfishness. It mirrors that of the ultra-wealthy. It can only be acceptable, or even feasible, when most everyone else can't, or won't engage in it. This is the "freedom" to turn your own "property" into a dump site. It's the "freedom" to toss trash off your private dock. The freedom to burn tires in your own backyard.

This freedom only works if it's largely theoretical. Because this freedom fucks other people's freedoms without their fucking permission, and there is a threshold after which this ends up in a net *loss* of fucking freedom. So, while we can all be (more or less) in agreement that, at the moment, we don't need to legislate against this bullshit, that doesn't mean we must waive our right to call it what it is: selfish fucking nutbaggery.

And these people's stated political goals are as fucking odious as the means they intend to use to further them.