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Why are you expressing such outrage in response to what seems like an earnest and valid question?

The cyberwomb account was created 5 minutes before that comment was posted. And the name "cyberwomb" seems to be problematic under the philosophy expressed. So I'm guessing it's a troll.

I have to say, it seemed more like the account holder was just someone who was honestly angry about it, and made a new account to post for the first time, rather than being a troll.

Human life is more about emotions than logical argument, and this is an emotionally charged issue for people who naturally have wombs.

I mean for a trivial example, I even used to get annoyed by people who have braces, because I always had good teeth and people would always ask me "Oh when did you have braces? When did you have your teeth whitened?". It was only after I had laser eye surgery to correct my terrible vision that I was OK with it all ;)

Hiding that post feels like damage. We're worse off for not having it available as context for this worthwhile discussion. There must be better ways to handle flagged content than by disappearing it. Maybe "jail" the offending account temporarily instead.

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