Change My Mind

Should starving or dying from exposure be 100% at will too?

Not unless it was 100% at will. Props to anyone with the gumption and grit to follow through on willfully starving to death--that's pretty brutal.

Cool, we’re on the same page then. If an able body person chooses work then they are choosing to go without food or shelter.

Apparently not. The direct parallel would be if someone chooses not to work then they are choosing not to have food or shelter, but even that is flawed because food and shelter can be acquired through plenty of means besides work, i.e. charity, theft, improvisation, scrounging and whatever other methods "unemployed" hominins employed and continue to employ in order to avoid starvation or exposure.

Any willful death is predicated on intent and has no direct relationship to employment status. I mean, I guess unless someone hires you to starve yourself. I could see that happening in international waters. Wouldn't trust them to pay up after the fact, but mostly because my corpse would be precluded from following through on the "trust but verify" protocol.

I guess I miss understood your meme. Was this meant to be pro-suicide?

This meme is pro-not-presuming-to-limit-the-self-governance-of-others. My personal feelings about how that self-governance is carried out are absolutely, completely and utterly irrelevant. I suppose to answer your question more directly, no, I am not presently pro-suicide. I do however take great comfort in knowing the option is there, should I decide to choose it.

“I do however take great comfort in knowing the option is there, should I decide to choose it.”

That would make me sad. Maybe your life should your life be 100% at my will🤔

Lol, there's only 1 way that's likely to play out.

I just got the meme. It is anti-abortion.

I hadn't considered the implications on fetal life.

I embrace the validity of people's artistic interpretations independent from the intentions of the artist, but you appear to have misconstrued the definition of a key element of this meme. "At will employment" simply means that either party can terminate the employment at will with no legal consequence (*void where prohibited, restrictions may apply, ask your doctor if freedom is right for you). It offers no guarantee of employment to either the hiring party or the hired party, only the guarantee that either party can freely sever the employment contract at any time and for any (lawful, i.e. non-discriminatory) reason.

So the meme is actually pro-choice. At least until the unborn become a lawfully protected class. At which point they will need to be counted as people by the census bureau, granted citizenship, assigned a SSN, made eligible for life insurance, counted as dependents for tax purposes, etc. That would have to be a package deal or the claim that they're people would fall flat on its fetus. Face. Fall flat on its face.