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Chance acquaintances are unlikely to pity you directly because it's not culturally OK to do that to a guy. It is, in my experience, completely culturally OK to do that to a woman. There's a cleaning lady I used to work with in the English dept. who does it to me every time we meet, as her second question - how are you? no babies yet? I'm seriously considering a collapsible axe.
Your last paragraph wasn't poorly thought out or unnecessary, I just disagree with you :>. As, in fact, I do on the overpopulation thing. Yes, we're living unsustainably, but there are also too many of us, and as a result we're losing things - species, environments, values, quality of life - that I think impoverish us radically as a race, and ultimately threaten at least our civilisation and possibly our survival. I commend you for hopefulness, but I can't share it.
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Chance acquaintances are unlikely to pity you directly because it's not culturally OK to do that to a guy. It is, in my experience, completely culturally OK to do that to a woman. There's a cleaning lady I used to work with in the English dept. who does it to me every time we meet, as her second question - how are you? no babies yet? I'm seriously considering a collapsible axe.
Your last paragraph wasn't poorly thought out or unnecessary, I just disagree with you :>. As, in fact, I do on the overpopulation thing. Yes, we're living unsustainably, but there are also too many of us, and as a result we're losing things - species, environments, values, quality of life - that I think impoverish us radically as a race, and ultimately threaten at least our civilisation and possibly our survival. I commend you for hopefulness, but I can't share it.