Traumatic injuries are horrible but it’s largely the shock that accompanies them or seeing them. The birth of a child - a long anticipated child with whom you already have acquaintance (movement, speaking to him/her) is something different. I always had concern for my wife but we were both overjoyed with the newborn (besides, I wasn’t bleeding). My opinion is that we’re too distant from the realities of life - like butchering our own meat. When it comes in a restaurant or on a pink foam tray, it is little more than calories to be prepared in some gastronomic concoction. When you raise it, kill it and butcher, it takes on a whole new meaning and connection to the real world.
Poor plastic man living in his bubble.
Indeed. People say they hate guns and love animals but they eat meat that was killed with a device similar to a very powerf air rifle.
Also there is a difference between birth and trauma, just like going to shooting range vs. The trauma of accidental discharge or being shot at. These are two completely different things that leave the person very different marks, in control vs. ptsd
To compare birth to a car accident or giving ptsd vs. The horror of abortion and unexpecting infecting sex is really the projectioning hypocrisy.