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Hey everyone welcome to another DailyJim it's friday june 24th, it's technically june 24th this time, And I wanted to talk about how the Supreme Court today overturned Roe vs Wade, which is a court precedent which has been set for I believe around 50 years. And apparently it says that ah the decisions get kicked back to the states where the states are now allowed to decide whether a state allows or prohibits abortion, and just so you know, if you're not familiar with the case, I'm not super familiar. But what I do know is that there are many states that had so called trigger laws meaning that if roe versus wade would be overturned, those laws would immediately come into effect. And something like maybe 20 states. And so people who were currently sitting in abortion clinics were then I believe refused service because they were no longer legally allowed to operate in those states. Oh.
There's so many different things I could talk about, but I think what I really want to talk about on this is.
How I wish we would talk about the emotional experiences that we're feeling instead of projecting our rationality and legal reasons on top of it, so to speak a little bit too, that I was reading something on twitter, talking about how, you know, Supreme Court justices maybe just kind of using the law and kind of dancing and playing wordsmith with the law to justify their religious beliefs, and I think it may go even deeper than that and people may want to may disagree with me on this, but I believe a lot of times that even our religious beliefs are, extracted from our personal emotional experiences. So, for example, some people are god loving, some people are god fearing, and I find that, this might be quite controversial because I'm talking about religion, but I find that a lot of times, depending on our experience, if we've grown up in a household where we were raised with fear, then we often will go in and point to certain passages in religious texts or in religion in general or doesn't have to be religion. It can be our ideology and other things to justify the fear that we're feeling to basically just put some rational icing on top of the the emotional cake that we're feeling. And I think this happens so often in highly controversial topics such as abortion and. It frustrates me because I want to know why people actually either want to ban abortions or want to give people the choice to have abortions. I want to know what is the deep emotional reason why people have this, these these beliefs and I just don't hear conversations much about them, but they come out, I remember reading something about this one guy who went to it was more of a, you know, kind of on the democratic side or the liberal side. He went to a conservative rally and this one woman came up to him and said something, oh abortions are evil and this and that. And he said, why do you believe that? Because God said this and that and why do you believe that? Because kids, they're innocent. So why do you believe that? Basically? He just kept going deeper and deeper and at some point she said because I'm not able to have Children and it's not fair that these other people can and they just throw them away.
For me, that's a real statement. Finally, we're getting to a point where we're talking about how we actually feel and what's actually driving our behavior and our beliefs. That's what I want to get to, talking on a forum today, it's a hacker news forum And one guy or one person, I assume guy because I think it's like 90% male, but.
One guy said, you know, he believes that pregnancy is very beautiful and this loving experience and some other person responded said yes, I love my kids, but I want you to know that pregnancy for my wife, was a painful bloody experience. And after that she had like even get her vagina stapled and sometimes like even organs can fall out after the, you know, after the birth. And so she'll have to go get it fixed. And she said, and he said, and this was one of the lighter experiences compared to some of her friends.
And so, talking about the real the pain, the regret in either making the decision to abort or not making decision to abort. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't situation for a lot of people, there are people who are alive and are grateful that their parents, their mother tried to abort but wasn't able to and that person is alive and I'm grateful for that. And there are people who, you know, had an abortion and they regret it for the rest of their life and there are people who don't have an abortion and they've regretted for the rest of their lives.
It's not an easy solution. I just wish we would talk about it on a much deeper level. Instead of blaming each other and throwing stones at each other because I think we're not getting anywhere. We're just dividing more and more when we could actually come together on this. And I just wish I just wish we would stop living in in the land of ideology. And the false rationality, frankly rationalizing our emotions away and just talked about how we actually felt. The fear, the anger, the maybe joy, the relief, the confusion, the shame, the loneliness, the the powerlessness, the powerful nous. This whole range of emotion that comes from either having the choice or not having the choice um from the mother's side, from the father's side, from the child side from the society, the neighbor of the cultural side. I just wish you would have much deeper conversation. I'm so tired of having back and forth rationalizations with people and just people saying, well, I'm just a rational human being acting in my self interest. I'm like bullshit. Like come on, okay, really? You're just acting in your own self interest, Your rational self interest. Then rationally logically define things to me. I mean, if people, I you can tell I'm very frustrated today, if people want to go on a rational argument. Fine then be rational. If you can possibly be rational without emotions, but most neuroscience scientists who work in this field, I don't think that's possible. So I mean, fine if one, I just don't believe it. So.
I guess to wrap up as I'm getting a little late on this, but the idea of just being, I wish, no, I feel a lot of pain. I feel a lot of fear. I feel a lot of sadness. I feel a lot of confusion around what happened today. I feel a lot of motivation to try to fix legislation and fix Congress so that we can enact laws. So we don't have to rely on the proclamations of nine lifetime appointed judges. Um, and I, I don't know.
I just feel for a lot of people today.
On that note, it's the weekend and I will talk to you all on monday, take care of him.
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