I seem to remember the last time eugenics was popular in Continental Europe it didn't work out too well.
I kinda think each person can make their own choices about having children, but as a potential carrier of the Cystic Fibrosis gene, I do fully support the concept of genetic counselling so that people can make informed choices.
I'd certainly be interested in how supporters of involuntary sterilisation think it could be enforced without breaching European human rights legislation.
Oooh, this is an interesting train of ideas, Mudblood.
Some people advocate meeting as soon as possible and if you can't meet within a week, or so to see if there's chemistry, there's no point in wasting time continuing contact over the internet.
Some people seem to prefer, or are willing to get to know others for prolonged periods without meeting.
I wonder how your (seemingly viable) idea of chemistry versus infatuation fits in with those ideas.
As ever this so reminds me getting a dog from the pound.
There's a spark when you first see them; you invite them into your life whereupon they trash the place, chew up your treasured possessions and piss on everything; you go through a phase of establishing which boundaries are not to be crossed (on both sides), what each other likes and what you accept as being part of each other's personalities (even if you don't always 'approve' you come to like it anyway); and then you find yourself besotted with each other again.
Maybe sometimes we're a bit too quick to dump the dog, rather than learning the skills to deal with a situation which isn't perfectly how we imagined it would be.
A shop assistant commented on my 'mermaid' hair the other day. I would have felt terribly glamorous if I hadn't just got my shopping bag all tangled up in it.
I just don't think I could achieve conformity, somehow. Not even for the fun of shocking people.
Which is precisely what babies and children need to become healthy, independent adults who cope well with stressful events in their lives.
It also makes me think about how disparaging some people can be towards those who don't cope with stress well - it's very easy to scoff at, or blame others from a position of advantage. It's just not very useful.
It's a highly recommended genre of childcare, apparently popularised in the 1880's in part to reduce transmission of infections and partly as a behavioural training technique.
Gina Ford's The Contented Little Baby is still very much in vogue, despite the controversy and the evidence available from the 1950's regarding Attachment Theory (John Bowlby, considered the father of Attachment Theory, Mary Ainsworth and many others).
The parenting, or childcare techniques which advocate early discipline and training rather suit today's busy and routined lifestyles, so if it's recommended, it's going to be used.
I'd disagree that stress is only a question of mind.
For example, leaving babies to prolonged bouts of crying (as recommended by some genres of childcare) and the consequent insecure attachment is thought to result in neurological changes. These physical and neurochemical changes are carried through to adulthood and effect adult ability to deal with stress.
Maybe because she feels sensual for herself in those pics?
Just because someone else may, or may not find them provocative, doesn't effect the issue of consent. They're not an open invitation to anybody and everybody without her having a say in the matter.
jac379 Forum Posts (12,293)
Go on.
RE: Dating with disabled person (on wheelchair or other serious disease)
Well, we all have our 'disabilities'.For some people that means they feel a need to have power over those least able to slap them upside the head (as the Americans say.)