army1987 comments on Equality and natalism - Less Wrong
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Neglecting the cost of the contraceptives and the cost of distributing them.
ISTM that condoms aren't that expensive...
In that case why is it so necessary to distribute them for free?
The inconvenience of buying them? (I'm just hypothesizing; I'm not in the mind of people who don't want children but still have unprotected sex, so I don't know why they do.)
Either: not being expensive is a privileged view, and they're far more expensive to poor people and why don't you care about poor people?
Or: if they have access to free birth control but still don't use it, we can legitimately start talking about how their culture is the problem without people accusing you of being racist/classist/ etc.
The whole point of making those accusations is that they can't be refuted by evidence, or rather it is the person presenting disconfirming evidence who is accused.