# Disputing my warning/suspension

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**Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputing-my-warning-suspension/950393/32 "2021-09-09T21:11:58Z")

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> I can’t find them at the moment, but we’ve had threads before that asked, “Parents, how many other kids would you be willing to kill, or let die, to save your own kid?”

As an aside, that may have been me. In my earlier history on the 'dope, before the late **Jonathan\_Chance** ’s 2020 rule changes, these sort of debates would not have been given in their own dedicated topic but as tangents in the topic they arose in.

> [@A Very Long Analysis of the Arguments Related to the Abortion Debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-long-analysis-of-the-arguments-related-to-the-abortion-debate/836527/169):
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> I have encountered this thought problem before, and while you accurately describe instinct, I tend to find a different calculus to be more moral. As I see it there are two basic levels of responsibility regarding children. First, it is generally understood that a parent will do everything within their power to protect their child. Second, as I understand it every adult has a responsibility to protect all children, to an extent (which possibly doesn’t include risking harm to oneself or others). …

~Max

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