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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (9880)	3/27/2001 2:21:02 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Extramarital sexual activity doesn't even usually lead to children. If someone had a vasectomy, then fertility is never an issue, yet I'm reluctant to mandate such a policy. The most powerful tool we have is planning and persuasion. I don't think most people that have children are really ready for the changes it produces. It some ways it wasn't as bad for me as having a parrot because you can take the baby with you. The parrot was big enough and unfriendly enough to strangers that, for me, it was harder to get a sitter. I'd also been married for 8 years before the baby arrived. The challenges it offered were not the ones I had expected. Educating people on birth control and STDs seems to be key. There will always be people that use incredibly bad judgement and I don't know how a free society can universally protect everyone from themselves.