thinking small(TLAF)

Just finished chapter 6 tonight, and I had a thought:  why not explore all the big problems in the world and make them smaller?

There's so many weird qualms we as a society have about certain acts or behaviors, why not breakdown the reasons for anxieties over "hot button" issues and get to a consensus where disagreements can be made meh?



For example: abortion

Personally, I'm indifferent, but I find the practice to be abhorrent. Does any woman intentionally get pregnant to experience the joy of the said procedure? Forget the whole whether life begins at conception or after a full term delivery argument, and focus on how conception occurs. Avoid conception, then abortion is out of the picture, right?

I imagine that there a "moral" issues regarding "sex ed," but one should know where babies come from if he/she is of age to have one.

Maybe have biology taught at an earlier age without the hype of birds and bees lectures?

Why not have home ec and health incorporated into the elementary curriculum as well?

Absurd thinking? Well, the above can be done without being declared as such through utilizing the concepts into the traditional "3 R's."

My son used to have reading assignments that were factual like how mammals like dolphins sleep by shutting down half their brains or how Dr. Benjamin Carson found solace in reading while growing up in Detroit.

I am of the belief if something is out of sight then it's out of mind, but sexual desire doesn't exactly work that way. Babies should be very present in the minds of people capable of becoming parents through acting upon sexual desires.

I don't trust my 10 year old to watch his baby sister, but he is much more aware of her existence than he was at half his age when his other sister was born.

Maybe elementary schools should double as nurseries to expose kids to babies more and to allow an understanding that having one around isn't exactly playtime all the time?

Maybe activists of both sides should picket outside middle and high schools rather than abortion clinics?

Trying to convince someone to have an unplanned child without offering to assist in raising said unplanned child is as morally wrong as the supposed taking of an unborn child's life when you consider the statistics of what happens to children of single mothers.

The arguments surrounding abortion will never be settled, but why not look at the root of the problem for there are many factors beyond ignorance that don't hinder the supposed need for abortions? Science and family interaction are two realms that I see as having possible solutions, but it is late and my bedtime to explore them.