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Thank you for the clarification and taking the time to respond. I did not mean to imply that men should not have a say in the matter. I think I might have placed too much emphasis and an overly broad definition of "best."

My point was that given the biological constraints females ultimately are the most impacted by pregnancy. As a male I definitely value improvements for male birth control. However from a societal point of view I think the best birth control is one that is either controlled by women or is verifiable by women.

Since you are being so helpful and I seem to be so hard-headed/clueless on this one. What do you think the general disagreement is with my "best neccesarily implies one or the other comment."?



With no reasoning given it's not a particularly valuable post in terms of contribution to the conversation, and it forces people to speculate about why you're declaring it to be "the best". There are any number of unflattering possibilities, which probably accounts for no small measure of the downvotes.


I think you are confused about the post I was referring to:

"Um, "best" neccesarily implies a "one or the other" proposition."

How can best be interpreted to mean anything other than a one or the other proposition.


> I think you are confused about the post I was referring to:

Whoops.

> How can best be interpreted to mean anything other than a one or the other proposition.

(Simplified)

You said: I think the best thing is X (vs Y).

He said: I disagree that this is an either-or proposition.

You said: Um, "best" neccesarily implies a "one or the other" proposition

He was never confused about the meaning of "best", he just disagreed that it applied.

You missed his point by a country mile, and got downvoted accordingly.




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