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lostnfound

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Fri Oct 9, 2020, 06:00 PM Oct 2020

Dear Toxically-Masculine Anti-Life Protestors

I know you’re not real big on protecting life unless you can do it with a gun in your hands or by telling some pregnant woman what she has to do with her pregnancy.

So I thought maybe you could benefit by hearing what other people do protect the life of others.

1. Give up alcohol because it might harm the baby.
2. Avoid visiting volcanos Because of the fumes.
3. Avoid eating certain kinds of cheese.
4. Quit smoking both when pregnant and when living with children in the house.
5. Fight with toddlers to keep their seatbelts on.
6. Put up fences around swimming pools.
7. Install ties or anchors on heavy furniture that might tip over.
8. Buy bike helmets, car seats, and life jackets, and insist on their use.
9. Pay for and take the kids to swimming lessons to avoid risk of drowning.
10. Don’t let the kid eat raw honey for the first year.
11. Don’t pack peanut butter because of kids with allergies.
12. Be ready to stay in bed for a month or two of pregnancy if doctor says so.
13. Pay any amount of money if kid is sick to make them healthy.
14. Put safety covers on electric sockets and burners.
15. Run fire drills as a teacher or office leader.
16. Land an airplane on the Hudson, if you are Sully.
17. Figure out how to get astronauts on Apollo 13 home safe after impact damage.
18. Run into a burning building, and search for occupants, if you are a fireman.
19. Burn-test every type of material on an aircraft interior for toxic smoke.
20. Take aging parents to physical therapy and doctor appointments a few times a week.
21. Get a PhD in biochemistry and live in a lab to try to finding a cure for a disease.
22..Issue recalls for berries for E-Coli, airbags that open easily, cribs with wide slats...
23...Donate a kidney or bone marrow to someone who needs it.
24....do any one of a million things that GROWN-UPS do in their work lives and personal lives to protect others.

*To save a life, maybe dozens of lives, you just have to wear a damn mask.*
*And if that upsets you, you may NOT go kidnap the damn governor.*

Is this the first time anyone ever asked them to do something for others?
We need some serious changes to childhood education. No kid should get out of third grade without understanding the concept of societal obligations and responsibilities to others.

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Dear Toxically-Masculine Anti-Life Protestors (Original Post) lostnfound Oct 2020 OP
Your last two sentences. n/t DEbluedude Oct 2020 #1
Good but long winded Amishman Oct 2020 #2
Excellent! 👏👏👏👏 SheltieLover Oct 2020 #3
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