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DanArmak comments on Many of us *are* hit with a baseball once a month. - Less Wrong Discussion

39 Post author: Alexandros 22 December 2010 05:56PM

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Comment author: DanArmak 23 December 2010 12:13:36AM 5 points [-]

Those sentences are meaningless nonsense.

Not that I'm defending this viewpoint, of course, but it is far from meaningless. Bearing children is quite literally the value of a woman - in most societies "that do not derive from the Enlightenment", as Eliezer would say. A barren woman is worthless and therefore not a woman at all, in the important sense - she is not a functional woman.

To a majority of all men who ever lived, and probably to most women who lived with them, "the value of a woman is in bearing children", or "bearing children is what makes a human being a woman", are nearly tautologies. You should not be surprised to encounter such statements. (Ugh field optional.)

Comment author: lucidfox 23 December 2010 05:55:15AM 0 points [-]

Oh, I'm not surprised. It just feels so... sad and cheap to see the value of a person reduced to purely their reproductive value. Is this the "logic" behind haters of childfree people?