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That's not a question that can be easily answered by giving a simple number. Just saying X% is rather naive and belongs to the middle-ages when things were simple.
One question is what is considered income?
Ridiculously, in Germany only what you work for is subject to income tax, not income...
@Demojen
OK, I now see what you mean and actually agree with a lot of what you're saying.
It's just that this would have required a good amount of leglimancy to deduct that from your statement.
@Demojen
As much as I agree with your opinion on how the rights of people are circumnavigated, it is totally off the point we're arguing about.
So I'm asking you to clarify your position on this specific point:
If you say "no human has the right to financial support", what do you mean?
Do you...
Tell me, what right do you have that is not something given to you by the country you live in?
I "don't feel free in my entitlement to welfare", it is a right I have under the constitution of the country I'm a citizen of. And because I live in a globalized world and the European Union, that...
Why make things so complicated?
Put all the responsibility on her ( "well, she can take the pill, I would if I could" (fortunately, since the possibility is unlikely to arise, nobody will ever ask him to put up. Who cares how she feels about it? Who cares about the women who cannot take it, or...
Wow, I'm not a human :shock: :lol:
In Germany there's a whole hirarchy. First there's my husband (and he has the right to financial support from me), then there's my parents, then there's the state and once they're old enough, my children. All to their individual economic ability.
Again USA...
Yes, they staged a wonderful protest, and as a result the conservatives won the vote.
I call that backfire.
But they showed that in a democracy, the government hast to bend ultimately to the will of the people. They didn't end the protests, because it would have meant sending the army against...
That's what the whole thing boils down to: A fetus has no rights. Therefore, they cannot be given or taken away. A child, a living human being has rights and those include financial support from both parents. And that cannot be given away by another person either.
The point with harming a fetus...
Sorry, but that's BS.
It's the "a day at the farm" image in the book my toddler kid has. Modern milk cows are mostly fed special high protein- high calorie stuff. Remember Mad Cow Syndrome? It most likely came from the fact that we fed the cows grounded up animals because that was a cheap way to...
Re: The world ends in six days
Well, how many times did it already end according to Jehova's Witnesses?
Seriously, if I had a buck for every time the world has already ended so far, I'd treat the throphy husband to a very nice meal at our favourite posh restaurant :D
And it will end again in...
1st: Reading comprehension fail
I never called you a pro-lifer, I said you were as misogynist as they are.
And I make that statement not because you're disagreeing with me and that would make anybody anything, but because you yourself display your misogynism clearly.
You wnat to have sex...
You know what?
Come back when you've grown up.
A child is not a house. Child support is not about the custodial parent getting any benefit, it is about the needs of a child. Unless you understand that, you'll just be another boy whining and complainingthat people make him take responsibility for...
Putting words into your mouth? I don't have to. Here's what you've written:
Note that you talk about her not using contraception (propperly)?
What about HIM using contraception? Like, you know, condoms?
What about talking about it beforehand and making you decission to take that risk according...
Ignorance? Mine?
We'll see later who'S ignorant
You obviously didn't read what I posted, but I'll try again.
Yes, you agree that woman should have the right to have an abortion. You only don't agree that children have a right to support. What you want is control over women again. You want to be...
As an atheist, I totally agree with you. Only the religious will never see that. They will claim that any changes made are really made in getting closer to the truth, that what they said before was based on older, human mistakes (they'll kind of explain it with a peer-review process like...
Oh no, a MRA :roll:
Has it ever occured to you that the word "child support" has a meaning? It's for the child, not for the woman. Shit happened, kid's here now so grow up and take some responsibility for your actions. You know what? SHE has to pay for that kid, too. She has to provide for...
Andi already explained this:
Those are great (if you like them. I know a great bunch of women who just hate taking the normal pill, me being one of them. For one it reduces my sex drive to practically zero and I'm not the only one. What's the use of being able to have safe sex if you don't feel...
What, they changed that?
Well, religions Do change. Usually from inside and outside pressure. The catholic church in Germany is much different from the catholic church in the USA. It is different now than whatt it was in the 1950s.
Religions can ban any practise within their club they want.But...
Yes, but it misses the point. The damaging, the dangerous and the life-threatening situations seldomly present themselves in advance (except in cases like ectopic pregnancies). It doesn't touch the question whether it should be a woman's choice to run that risk or not. When I engaged in the...