Week 22

 

📸@DiscoveringBhuhlok

It's a baby, they said

Not yet, she said.

It's going to be, they said

So is your sperm, she said

Don't have unprotected sex, they said.

Don't ejaculate, she said.

I can't control it, they said

Nor can I, she said.

Birth control!, they said

Reversible vasectomy!, she said.

It may have long term effects, they said

I rest my case, she sighed.

God's watching you!, they chased

He's been listening, she persists...

When liberty falls in a country that's been a popular beacon of liberalism, illiberalism is winning. #RoeVWade

India is not socially isolated. Indulge in preemptive dismissal of parasitic ideas & signal positive reinforcement to our govt. for their continually progressive MTP laws. They are today, purely on science and prioritization of mother's health & capability.

Would I grow my child to be vegan?

A friend of mine today, asked me what it would be like for my children. "Would you grow them to be Vegan?" I replied, with a smile, "Yes".

For the free-will advocate that she is, those eyes exclaimed repulsively, "But, that's not fair! Let them choose their path, their own lifestyle". I was taken aback, to be honest. Are we, indeed victims, victims of double-standards and that maybe, we don't even know that..

Is it forgoing choice, I ask, when you teach a child to not steal, to not lie? Is it forgoing choice when you bring home a pet whom your child shall grow to treat with love?

Then how is it, against choice, when he's taught to live healthy, without imposing the belief that eating dead bodies would bring him good health. That he's taught the art to live, and more importantly, to let live.

Free-will, we love! But it isn't free-will I'm teaching, if I encourage his participation in adventures of mankind, which don't let a cow decide who her milk, is for. Which don't let a chicken decide when she's ready for euthanasia. Adventures which don't let a child know that food is, but a means of survival and a right, best exercised while being conscious of the footprint it can leave behind.

"If someone placed a two-year old child in a crib with a bunny rabbit and an apple, the child would play with the rabbit and eat the apple, an unambiguously herbivorous reaction." -Gary Yourofsky

I turned vegan 2 years back, with the regret, that I didn't do it sooner. Let my child regret, one thing less.