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Imagine you're stranded on an island somewhere. You're the only person on the island, and don't have the ability to leave. One day while wandering around you find an infant. Since there are no other people, the infant will die if you don't care for it. It's not your child, nor did you do anything to cause the child's existence/presence. Do you have an ethical obligation to care for this child?

My opinion: there are competing rights here. The child has a right to a basic amount of care until it becomes an adult. You have the right to be unencumbered by childcare if it's not your child. I think an unfortunate situation that isn't the fault of either party should not require one to give up their rights for the other, in the same way that I'm not required to help pay to rebuild someone else's house if it burns down.

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.