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    1 个月前

    I reported a comment for basically saying that men are the only violent sex, and they temp-banned me for abusing the reporting system. The explanation message (canned, I’m sure) said that abusively reporting people is a form of harassment or bullying, or something like that.

    Eat shit reddit, and fuck spez.

    edit: Based on my experience and what others are saying, I have to wonder, were they trying to burn it down from the inside?











  • The thing is it’s not a “hey, need an abortion? just do this.” Look at what it’s saying: if you drink the bitter water and God judges you guilty, it will cause an abortion, and that’s how we’ll know whether you’re guilty or not.

    Religious POV: No human has any choice in the matter. Drink the water, God decides. Zero choice.

    Non-religious POV: I see a few possible explanations.

    One is the person administering the “bitter water” might actually have some concoction that worked, but if it did work, that would signal to the community that the would-be mother was guilty under their harsh law. Not good for her, not really a choice.

    Another possibility is that it’s a ritual designed to let people move past perceived adultery. Drinking the magic water shows your faith and innocence because you would have believed you were poisoning your baby if you knew you were guilty. In reality, maybe not, but that’s what the ritual presents on the surface. You drink the magic water, everyone feels better that God either didn’t judge you guilty or forgave you, everyone goes on with life. Everyone’s happy except if the mother was so desperate she would rather have been punished by the law than have that baby. Still no real choice.