No one in this society survives in isolation. Not one of us, totally deprived of all support or assistance of other people, could survive. Well, maybe a few highly trained survivalists, but not forever, they would have to come out at some point for medical care or more tools or something.
So the fact is that dependency is a fact of life.
Some people are more dependent than others.
Some are in hospitals and totally dependent on a nurse to feed them. Nurses stop feeding them, they die.
The fetus is dependent on the mother until perhaps 8 months.
But dependency is a fact of life.
BTW, a totally unrelatd topic, well, related but different, with the evidence we now have of the importance of breast feeding, should the government require every woman who is physically capable of breastfeeding to breast feed her baby up to whatever time the breastfeeding is not required for health reasons? Should wilful refusal to breastfeed be punished as child abuse, just as withholding critical medicine or food would be? |
