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It smells like reheated puritanism in here... Glad to know the more things change, the more they stay the same.

No, it would not matter to me. I wouldn't ask, either. People deserve their privacy. But I'm aware of how outdated that concept may sound or be, nowadays. If I got to know, I'd like to know from the start. Because... yes.

The least I'd expect would be for the person to respect me and make sure everything was well and safe, before condoms could be considered to be overlooked. I always made sure to watch my health in regards to others.

I'm aware that for this hypothetical STDs are to be diaregarded but still...

But "body count"? What happened to "sex partners" or "lovers"? Got too clinical or too intimate? I'd like to understand the almost pathological need of lingo nowadays to create distance or sound military. In this case, both at the same time. Let's dehumanize ourselves a bit more.

Going back to the original question again:

No, it does not matter how many people warmed their sheets or enjoyed their bits. Good for them, got lucky, but I get to keep the prize. Maybe share a bit, if we get a bit more on the wild side.

Let's raise the stakes. What if the person is/was a sex worker? A prostitute or maybe a porn actor or actress? Does their line of work makes them less worthy of having emotional needs? Less human? Less of a person? Not really. In my understanding they are as deserving, if not even more, of having someone love, respect and support them.

I remember watching this documentary on sex workers years back and how this actress described her need, after a long day of work of being fucked, to go home, have a shower, have a nice meal with her partner and afterwards go to bed and make love in the missionary position. Telling, isn't it?

And in the extreme scenario of that long line of people stemming from some trauma or perhaps a mental health condition, again, it should not matter at all.

I'm now available for your downvotes and vitriole.

Does this means we achievied a point of agreement or further discord?

You should ask more questions and assume less.

What motivated my vote for decriminalizing abortion in my country was ending the loss of lives and ending the unreasonable and unjustifiable suffering and imprisionment of the women that had to undergo highly dangerous means and procedures to get one. Many women lost their lives and their chance to have children, when they chose to.

This forced law to be drawn and put in place to make sure any woman could get acess to free, informed and safe ways to end an unwanted pregnancy and would have pre and post interruption of pregnancy follow up, to ensure the woman's physical and mental health and access to proper means of contraception. This also includes verifying if the woman is not subject to abuse and does not abuse abortion.

Abortion was made safe and a last resort, as it should.

I am in favour of medically assisted death, as I am aware that many individuals suffer horrors until reaching their end, be it phisically, mentally, both or in any other way I am unaware of. What I am against is about banalizing euthanasia. It must be a last resort, when nothing can be done to aliviate or mitigate suffering or no cure or solution is available.

People should be allowed to live the best life they can. It is a basic human right. Resorting to terminate life because a person is tired or was defrauded of any expectation is plain basic stupidity. It's an easy way for an already crooked system to justify not changing.

I wish and want people to get help, be supported, receive the best care humanly possible to give to whatever may be their ailment and, if truly no other option is available, then, make their end as peaceful and painless as possible, with no consequences for healthcare personel, family or friends.

How about that for an anwer, you sanctimonious buffoon?

And I wish I could trip on my ego; meant I had one to begin with, instead of being a paper bag full of self doubt 90% of my time.

On what count?

It seems I hold wrong views, so please be so kind in enlightening me on that.

I voted in favor of the end of criminalization of abortion in my country; it was the first vote I ever cast and am proud of it.

Not that you asked or even deserve a polite answer after that tirade but I actually saw my mother waste away, for years, as a cancer ate her bit by bit. I don't wish suffering of any kind to any one, so fuck you and your presuppositions.

And if this answer grants me a ban, I will wear it proudly.

It's a shame and a disgrace we, as a species, came to the point we are today but if we are to blame anyone - here's my advice - let's start by getting our asses from the couch, walk to the nearest mirror and curse at the face staring back at us.

I'm fed up with people that by default take the position that everything is lost and there is no hope. So, again, fuck you and fuck off with that mindset.

Be politically active, stand up for your rights, unionize, talk to other people, meet like minded people, create some change, even if small. Actually do something.

Stop judging for a first.

Did I engage you in bad faith? Refused to answer your questions? I just hold different views from you and will fight to keep them, if necessary at the my own life's risk.

I'll repeat it again: I do not want the life of anyone, by default, viewed as discardable or disposable. That is an horrendous way to approach life.

And even children, if faced with health conditions with no hope or chance of improvement or cure.

I'm not against that. Your life, you should - you are - the only one with a word on how to dispose of it.

But to contemplate death because you see no other option for a life worth living, because society, family, friends, whatever failed you, is not the purpose of euthanasia.

Life is worth living.

That we failed people? I just did.

To accept people want to cease to exist? No. Understand it, respect it, tolerate it if to mitigate unreasonable suffering, yes.

Accept it just because, no. Life is not cheap, discardable or disposeable. So, no.

Yet we value life above all else. If people reach that point, where living holds no worth, we as a society have failed them.