grendel wrote:
I don't think its unethical. They're probably making more of a choice to get sterilized than they would when they got somebody pregnant. I have known quite a few people in real life (male or female) who opted for surgery to prevent having children, and they weren't on drugs. They simply didn't want kids or they'd already had kids and didn't want any more kids. The drug addicted people probably can't afford this surgery on their own. And they have a choice anyway, it's not being forced on them. To say they don't have a choice because they are on drugs would make offering them money to do anything at all unethical, and would also excuse any means of getting money (say, robbing a bank) for the same reason. Being on drugs doesn't make you unaccountable, and people still make decisions on how to live (not to mention the decision to use the drugs in the first place). The decision to get sterilized might be one of the more responsible ones.
Don't get me wrong, I love kids, I have a kid, and I wouldn't want to be sterilized nor would ever have considered this. There are other people who DON'T want to have kids (maybe they know they wouldn't be good parents, or maybe they simply have no interest, or they have medical or other reasons... or they've already had enough. Or they know they aren't careful enough about not getting pregnant). It's still their choice. It's better than getting an abortion later, in my opinion.
You have articulated my point much better than I have.
As for my reasons for not ever desiring having kids, there are a multitude including.
-Its Ecologically/Environmentally responsible.
-Lots more "me time"
-Don't have to put up with the guilt of bringing them into a world created of BS.
-There are way too many people for resources to support anyways.
-Why not adopt a kid? There are plenty out there that need a home. Thats the alternative that those who get the sterilization can fall back on, so thus there is a slippery slope stopper IMO for those who regret it and s**t.
19 Oct 2010, 12:12 am
