BREAKING: Roe v. Wade might be overruled or severely weakened by SCOTUS

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But you can’t legislate based on that feeling. I am sorry to hear your story, truly, but it does not mean that everyone else’s world has to realign itself to fit with yours. That’s a little solipsistic.

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I do not appreciate the implication that I don’t feel just because I do not feel *your* emotions. I can certainly sympathize with them, even empathize in certain aspects. Grief is near-universal. Once again, I am sorry that you have been through this experience. But your grief — and as you keep saying, it is YOUR grief — should not be, by default, the grief others feel. To insist it must be is to do exactly what you’ve accused me of: to make the feelings of others into illogic.

There is not only one way to feel, generally speaking. I certainly advocate for legislation that is based on my feelings. But I also try to back up that advocacy — if only for my own sake, but I think also to the benefit of others — with more than just those feelings. Emotions like grief are certainly real! They form a valuable part of the human experience. But they are not the only part of the human experience.