Debate. Debate. Debate.

My dad always says: "It's not the words that should bother someone, it's the meaning behind them."

interesting.

My dad cusses like a sailor, and my mom swears occasionally, so maybe bad words just come naturally to me. idk

I personally don't cuss a lot, and I don't really care if you do. But I also feel like there is a too far and I never say anything but there are people I know who can't go a sentence without a curse word and I just find it really annoying.

Exactly. What started me being so annoyed with it was when I reread a book I read years ago, and realizing how bad the language was. They used extremely bad words every few pages, and I didn't realize that at the age I read it. The same thing happened to me with a lot of books, now that I look back on the books I started reading when I found an online library of ebooks that didn't tell my young self which books were adult books and which were safe for my age.

I had the same problem with sexual or suggestive content. Like I had a high reading level, so I often got books from the YA section, but most if not all of the ones I usually got had some sort of suggestive scene. It was so annoying, and being a little twelve year old, I didn’t know when to skip pages and stuff. Super annoying.

I had that too! I loved reading and kept getting too far ahead in books I didn't realize were inappropriate.

Right? Especially in books that had LGBTQ characters, I was so desperate to read about some gays like me that i didn’t consider how much more mature those books would be. :/

I never had that, but when I first read something like that I didn't know what gay meant, and was very confused.

Hello! As an opinionated teenage character myself, I'd love to weigh in on any topic I have opinions on. But first, how are y'all doing?

Not great.

I'm doing good, for the most part. I had a good day, ate some good food, did some stuff, drew things… Pretty average, yet right now I feel like screaming excessively because my siblings are freaking nightmares. Yeah. :/

okay, what are y'alls opinions on abortions? (BIG topic there) personally, I'm pro choice but i wouldnt get an abortion myself, you kniw?

I'm pro-choice all the way. I don't think I would get an abortion unless me or the fetus would die otherwise (or the baby be in immense pain after birth and live a life of pain). Like it's the woman's bodies so let them so what they will.

I don't think it should be outlawed, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

right? I understand if your religion outlaws abortions for you but who gave you the right to outlaw it for everyone, because of what you believe? dumb old white man politicians

Mhm.

Honestly that's the issue with a lot of things. Like okay, you're against whatever because it's against your religion but that doesn't make it okay for that thing to be outlawed everywhere simply because it is against what you believe

yes!!!

I have to disagree here, I don't think abortion should be a thing. I personally love little kids, and I don't think killing them ever should be alright. I get that we can't outlaw things just because that's what a religion says, since that draws the line where I'd be forcing my beliefs onto others. I just think there definitely need to be more restraints, and I am personally very against it.

The only reasons I think abortion should be in use is for women who have been raped and has had no other option of birth control/it didn't work. As well as for parents whose child is mutilated and dying from some terrible birth defect. If they illegalize safe abortion, the unsafe abortion will come back (you know, like clothing hangers). So it won't completely stop the will of abortion if they illegalize it.

I'm pro-choice personally. Abortion is, in reality, a tough experience for the mother and/or father, and it isn't just for people to get willy-nilly, contrary to some pro-lifers' beliefs. Outlawing it won't prevent abortions, it'll just make it that much harder to have a safe one. Abortion is a safe and legal last resort, and should 100% be treated as one.

Alright, this is a topic I am very, very serious about and I’ll get some arguments/sources/etc once I get to my computer, but I am 100% Pro-life to the point where the thought of abortion makes me feel sick to my stomach. To be fair, I haven’t seen the arguments on the other side, so I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong. But to me, killing a child when it feels pain most intensely is simply evil and the fact that it’s so accepted these days hurts me.

I’ll be back with actual arguments in a moment.

I'm going to have to disagree there. I am pro-life, I don't believe that abortion should go on, and if it does, it should be treated as a very serious medical procedure done under diagnosis, which it is not currently. Abortion is not a last resort, not for everyone, thus one of the reasons for controversy. And you do know that the excuse, "It's not gonna stop them so I might as well let them do it." is the same as saying, "Billy's not gonna stop trying to touch the fire so I might as well let him do it." It doesn't make sense, nor is it right. But a lot of parents use that idea raising their children anyway, so meh.

There are a lot of technicalities that go into each situation. But I think lots of people fail to recognize that there are tons of things that going into abortion and ties into just how screwed our nation really is, morally that is. But morals aren't in question here.

I'll definitely agree that rape is a problem, but if it happens (which it does), and a woman ends up pregnant from it, shouldn't she have the option to abort the baby legally instead of bearing the child of the person who violated her?

I'll definitely agree that rape is a problem, but if it happens (which it does), and a woman ends up pregnant from it, shouldn't she have the option to abort the baby legally instead of bearing the child of the person who violated her?

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