I dunno about that. My ex and I are lily-whitey white white. Both of my kids are South Korean-born adoptees.
You see me walking through the mall with The Fem-Bot™ clutching my pony tail as she sits in the Gerry backpack on my back, you figure it’s an adopted kid.
Not really so hard at all.
I pity your misguided view.
I’m gonna have to agree with this pitting.
While I defended Annie’s original premise in the other thread (i.e., that adoption is NOT an abortion panacea), I was unaware of her … quirks … on this issue.
Really?!!? You’re positing that adoption is problematic because it creates serial killers? ?!!??REALLY??!!???
That’s just totally stupid.
And correlation <> causation. Learn the difference.
Ha ha, well, sound like they’re not old enough to be serial killers just yet. When they’re grown up, and in the mall by themselves, no one will suspect a thing.
Most adoptees look something like this.
But can you deny that nobody who was aborted ever went on to become a serial killer?
Even the males??
Well, that could certainly explain things…
Well, if **Sarahfeena **Pits you, that’s pretty telling. When I saw the name in the thread title, I thought for sure it was about some extreme pro-choice argument like: If you outlaw abortions, every miscarriage will be treated like a potential homicide. That red herring has been trotted out a number of times.
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I didn’t read all the quotes. It was an issue of some extreme pro-choice argument.
Well, let’s look at it this way: If abortion is outlawed, there will be more people (probably). The more people there are, the more serial killers there will be. Bingo! (Of course, the more people there are, the more Einsteins there will be, too, but let’s just focus on the serial killers.)
Being adopted has effed up my ability to select proper word usage, sorry. It’s difficult, you know, to decide what word to use when I’m compiling my list of people to murder.
Wow…I missed the original threads. I thought I had heard of most crackpot stories floating out there but I can honestly say I have never, ever heard someone make a connection between adoption and being a serial killer.
Makes the Moon Landing Hoax seem downright sensible in comparison.
(FTR/FWIW I am adopted as are my brother and sister…no serial killers to be found here.)
No, I just like making people worry that I have a butcher knife. It’s scarier.
Well, damn, you’re right. I didn’t think of that. 
Sure, like you’d tell us…
Yeah, it was, which was why I said that she was hurting her own argument. But, you know, I don’t even care about the pro-choice aspect of it. I’m pragmatically pro-choice in a political sense, and pro-life morally/ethically, and the discussions here are so polarizing, I don’t get involved in them anymore.
However, this point Annie makes over and over and over is the most stupid pro-choice/anti-adoption argument I have ever heard, so in that sense I’m trying to help her argue her “side” of the issue. I just am so frickin’ sick of seeing the same unsubstantiated claim. And it makes me even more annoyed when so many people show her why it’s a false claim, she ignores them, and then goes on to reiterate it a few months later.
** cough **
From Fox news, of all the liberal, left-wing, pro-choice sources available:
"A Georgia state representative has reintroduced an anti-abortion bill that would make miscarriages a felony if the mother cannot prove there was no "human involvement… Anyone convicted would face the death penalty or life behind bars… Franklin has introduced the bill each session since 2002 … "
It ain’t a red herring if the people in power keep trying to legislate it. (Setting aside that whole “can’t prove a negative” of course.)
Seriously Sarahfeena, you’ve got some abandonment issues when any criticism of adoption upsets you. I suppose someone who grew up always knowing that to the people who cared for them, they were always a second-best compromise always has those feelings. The correlation between serial killers and adoption is established. Actual research into why this correlation occurs is always shouted down by the adoption industry and their supporters who can’t stand to have their lucrative social experiment actually examined.
Really? It’s been made pretty clear in my family that I, the adopted bastard, is more favored than my sister, the natural born. I have NEVER felt that I needed to do anything to gain their acceptance, their approval. I have NEVER felt that I was a second-best compromise.
Actually, it’s my understanding that while correlation does not demonstrate causation, it also does not demonstrate a lack of causation. If the two events occur in proximity to each other, either (or both) may be influencing the other, but you can’t assume that without valid evidence.
The “adoption leads to serial killers” thing is, of course, silly. However I am not about to buy a home from a guy who dresses up as a clown, without first having someone search the crawl spaces.
You’ve got some issues, too.
