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I've just spoken to a doctor from the clinic where I'm getting the vasectomy done. She's agreed to do it, but she also tried to talk me out of it on the basis that I'm too young.
I don't understand this reasoning. At 25, I'm old enough to vote, drink, own a gun, drive a car, and, get this one, old enough to decide to have kids. Or, indeed, have six of them already. But I can't decide not to? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would have thought that having kids was more of a decision than not having them. More life-changing, more expensive, more of a strain on an already over-strained planet?
<offensive>Goddamn Catholics.</offensive>
I don't understand this reasoning. At 25, I'm old enough to vote, drink, own a gun, drive a car, and, get this one, old enough to decide to have kids. Or, indeed, have six of them already. But I can't decide not to? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would have thought that having kids was more of a decision than not having them. More life-changing, more expensive, more of a strain on an already over-strained planet?
<offensive>Goddamn Catholics.</offensive>
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There's no-one interfering with your choice to not have kids. By all means decide not to. But there is a difference between making a decision to not have kids and having elective surgery.
All that woman was doing was trying to convince you to keep your options open. Or was making sure that you were sure. I think most councillors do that, on one level or another. And I think they're right to do that, if it saves the one confused person in a hundred who's doing it for the wrong reasons.
And a bit of respect for other people's religions, Drew. You'd be the first one (and rightly so) to stand up and shout if people were off-handedly knocking pagans.
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The pseudo-html tags are meant to imply something that's not to be taken seriously; my apologies if you're actually offended.
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For the record, I would never say you shouldn't do that, but I would say that you should be prepared to have a lot of people react badly.
If that wasn't the way you meant it, then cool, I'll veer away from any comments about people randomly blaming large groups of people for things they didn't do, like the A-Team :)