YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcoholwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1963arrow-down123cross-posted to: antinatalism@lemmy.world
arrow-up1940arrow-down1external-link‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcoholwww.theguardian.comYoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square143fedilinkcross-posted to: antinatalism@lemmy.world
minus-squareSuperSleuth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down11·11 months agoSure, if you ignore all of human history it sounds like nightmare capitalism.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agoYou mean all of human history when we had things like slavery and women as property? Yeah, we should keep doing that stuff too, right?
minus-squareSuperSleuth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoNo, you’re making up things to be angry at. Children working existed before capitalism.
minus-squaredragonflyteaparty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoYour argument is really “we did it before, so it’s fine”? We did a ton of things before that aren’t ok. Historical usage of a thing doesn’t make it ok.
minus-squareSuperSleuth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoNo. Children working existed before capitalism, you’re grasping straws coming up with that conclusion of what I said.
Sure, if you ignore all of human history it sounds like nightmare capitalism.
You mean all of human history when we had things like slavery and women as property? Yeah, we should keep doing that stuff too, right?
No, you’re making up things to be angry at. Children working existed before capitalism.
Your argument is really “we did it before, so it’s fine”? We did a ton of things before that aren’t ok. Historical usage of a thing doesn’t make it ok.
No. Children working existed before capitalism, you’re grasping straws coming up with that conclusion of what I said.