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I personally agree with this list. But, we have to be pragmatic here. This is what CNBC says they did:
"The study measures quality of life issues including crime, health care, childcare and health care, as well as inclusive policies on discrimination and reproductive rights."
See, the last two skew this study. People in these shit hole states (not all, but at least enough of the voting public) don't want inclusive policies or reproductive rights. So, to them, this metric is backwards. They would argue that living in California or New York was way more terrible because of the brown people and gays.
This isn't exactly a scientific study. It's taking objective data to reach a subjective conclusion. Neat headline though.
I mean… if you want to move to one of these states as potentially any type of person (ie. perhaps not white and straight) then the inclusive policies are not an optional feature. If you’re a woman, having the government meddle in your health decisions can actually be life threatening.
For white, straight folks, and especially males, it’s easy to think these other two factors just subjectively improve life, but that’s because they already have a baseline level of respect and power in society.
Based on your take, I’d guess you’re straight, white and male.
Granted, I'm also straight, white, and male... But there are a hell of a lot of women who support abortion bans AND adore Mr "Grab 'em by the Pussy!"
I know one who doesn't believe God would allow a dangerous, nonviable pregnancy to take hold in (or in the case of ectopic pregnancies, outside of) a woman's uterus. She just doesn't believe something as sacred as a uterus can have that kind of flaw built into it.
And even if you could convince her dangerous pregnancies were real, I think @Ohthereyouare@lem.ee was saying that Republican women would not agree that their ability to survive an ectopic pregnancy is good or worth it if it also helps the "sluts" they despise to have more "convenience abortions."
Surviving might seem pretty good to you and I, but that doesn't make that ability objectively desirable to the people voting against their own interests. And they would be offended if their access to healthcare was deemed "better" in a quality-of-life metric than access to a set of theocratic restrictions.
They would tell you, "well I'm happier. Liberals think they can speak for me just because I'm a woman and my opinion doesn't matter! But if they asked me, I'd tell them I would prefer to live in a place where the sanctity of life was valued! They'd have to censor me and edit me out of their videos because I wouldn't support their narrative!"
But I guarantee that the second that she (or any other woman with similar views) had a pregnancy that threatened their life, they'd opt for an abortion ASAP. They'll rationalize that their abortion was justified and blessed by God, but all those other abortions are just "liberal sluts who want to kill babies" or something.
So what are we supposed to do to get them to stop choosing to be horrible like this? Can't do nothing... ~Cherri
Yup, I am, but if it's fair to say that the positive things about Florida don't count because those positive things exist in other states then it seems to me that it's fair to say that prejudice against minorities should count against those other states too. Florida does not have exclusive rights to mistreatment of minorities. In fact I'm pretty sure that exists in all 50 states.
My only point, was addressing the thought that a poster said he felt sorry for people living in those states (Florida in this case) and all I was saying was it wasn't like we all just get up every morning and fail to function because we are all so overwhelmed by how bad it is where we live. We have running water in Florida.
Reproductive rights is healthcare.
Yep. It is. That's sorta the point though. "Worst" is subjective. Personally? I'd never move to one of those 10 places. But, a lot of them don't think that the lack of reproductive rights is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I don't think that... But, a lot of folks in America do.
Just not a majority anywhere. Minority rule baby!
Did I mention majorities?
Cool, popular and correct are not synonyms
There's only one thing worse than mob rule by a majority. And that's authoritarian rule by a minority. So it doesn't mater.
Lol that's just what every populist jackass says to avoid actually defending their horrific views.
So you actually have nothing valuable to say? Gotcha. I never mentioned any of my views BTW. But you keep stuffing that strawman.
Yeah I agree, Christians do have a lot of horrific views, like equating a fucking zygote with a human being.
Abortion isn't a right.
Only because the US doesn't consider healthcare a right because we're backwards af.
Healthcare isn't a right because a right cannot be reliant on service provided by others. That's just an entitlement given out by shitty governments. Not to mention that abortion isn't Healthcare
Your right to a jury trial depends on the service of your fellow citizens, as well as the judge, etc.
Your right to vote depends on the service of many volunteers to work the polls, count votes, etc.
Rights are granted and protected by governments; whether they require a service is irrelevant.
I disagree that either of those is a right. They're just procedural rules regarding government power.
That sidesteps my point, which was that "rights" are granted by governments (the first of those two, jury trial, is literally in "The Bill of Rights"). You can disagree about what should be a right, and in a country with a democratic procedure for determining rights, you can vote to change what is considered a right, but whether it requires a service or not is irrelevant.
Healthcare requiring service does not preclude it from being a right.
False. Our rights exist whether or not governments choose to respect them.
Where do they come from?
What would be some examples of rights in your mind?
So tell us again how abortion is not a right.
If you're talking about natural rights, that philosophy works great if you're alone on an island. Once there's at least one other person, the philosophy gets drowned in a bathtub because you held something slightly valuable someone else wanted.
I think the premise is that the laws on reproductive rights have managed to effect the overall availability of health care. So it's not that the laws are bad, but some of them are written in such a way that it creates problems, or potential problems, for doctors. So Dr's are overall not choosing to get into situations where the law could make them liable and are choosing to set up practice in other locations where the government overreach isn't as bad.
The affirmative discrimination laws are generally hard to write well so they tend to add restrictions to people and businesses that are unintended.
It seems that those discrimination and reproductive rights are no longer 'soft' issues and this poll is acknowledging that.
Inclusivity is bringing the west back 100 years
Pretty sure the west wasn't all that inclusive in 1923.
How dare they have inclusivity and care what people think and hear them out for their own ideas and inventions and bringing in more competition to a space. I'd rather have monopolies and monoculture so everything can be Grey and not complex, man that would bring so much innovation in the country! :D
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