There’s nothing more tragic than an unwanted uncared for child in my book.

Yeah, that came off a lot harsher than I intended; "immoral" was a poor word choice on my part. I have no qualms with people (who are willing and able to be good parents) having kids; I personally just wouldn't choose to do so.

I appreciate the clarification, I'm sorry if I also came off harsher then necessary, that particular wording just really gets to me.

You're just imposing your human superiority like humans ought to/deserve to/need to exist. Humans are a fucking cancer on the Earth.

we literally wouldn't have lasted this long as a society

Can you demonstrate why that is a bad thing? Because your next thought in that sentence seems like a strong argument for why it's good.

No, it was understandable you took it that way because it certainly comes off like that!

You're kinda getting into enviro-fascist/eco-fascist rhetoric with the "humans are a cancer" talk.

That's rhetoric often pushed by the ruling class alongside food scarcity talk -- food scarcity that is manufactured by capitalists to convince us that rampant famine and starvation (caused by capitalism) cannot be fixed (it absolutely can given current technology if we stopped spending our resources on pointless wars).

Humans are capable of co-existing with nature quite well, actually, and we did for hundreds of thousands of years. Capitalism has only existed for at most 500 years, and feudalism before it had only been around since the 8th century in the common era.

The way it is is not the way it has always been, and the way it is is not the way it has to be. We are not the cancer, unchecked power is.

Ok, but you've done nothing to refute my statement or provide any additional information that's remotely useful. Just slinging ineffective insults that fall pretty flat if I'm honest.

In terms of ableism, I guess that's true to a degree. I definitely consider people of significantly lower intellect to be below me, but that's not to say I don't still treat them kindly and with respect until they've proven they don't deserve it.

The same people who tell me retarded is a bad word now will still casually drop moron or idiot and they're synonyms. People decided retarded was a bad word because it's the one we were using, but now those same people use a synonym and tell me a word is off limits. All they've done is give the word even more weight.

I am glad for you. In a time where everything needs to be flashy people forget the basics. Basic decency, understanding, empathy and cooking.

Seriously, I got her attention with the talk but got her hand with my cooking.

Or coercion, or a bunch of other closely related things. All across history there have been “incentives” for women to lower their standards and to gaslight themselves into believing that their shitty situations were normal.

But doesn't that make you a..

People commonly insult stupidity in creative ways. Many forms of "stupidities" are mental illnesses. While you're changing words around, you're essentially still coincidentally insulting what can be considered disabilities, so in the end does it really make a difference? "Retard" isn't a medical term for quite some time now, it is a pure insult. Medical field now says "intellectual disability".

If I say "stop 'tarding around", is it less insulting? What about saying "intellectually disabled"?

I never use the word myself (EDIT: ... Except now), I just sometimes overthink stuff

It's quite unclear if you just quoted a movie just for the sake of random reference, or whether you agree and think that way too