[ZNPaaneah]

I think this discussion on women's rights needs to include the concept of a eusocial society. We have lots of rules that we have to obey for this society to function properly that may or may not make sense to apes, or prehistoric man.

We have to follow traffic laws, there is a whole protocol in place about when you are to stop, when you go, who goes first, etc. Then if there is an accident there is a whole protocol again about how this is handled. None of these laws would be in a non eusocial society. In a group of apes it is simply might makes right and get out of my way.

Now there are a lot of advantages to having a eusocial society -- health care, electricity, social security, safe streets, etc.

The biggest rule that we all have to follow that makes all of this possible is we have to pay taxes. Imagine our society is similar to the ark of the covenant. We have to carry this. The more people we have shouldering the load the easier it is to do this in a good way. But as birth rates decline the society has major problems for their economy. Consider Japan. Too many old people and not enough young working adults to support them. The only possible way this society is sustainable is if the birth rate is at the very least, flat. As long as we replace every senior citizen with a young person this works, when that is no longer the case we are on the decline.

For a gorilla, none of this matters, but for a eusocial society it is crucial that the society has children and raises them to be productive members of society.

So with that in mind, consider the whole fight for "reproductive rights". Not talking about equal pay for women, not talking about giving women the vote, not talking about women breaking the glass ceiling.

Once the US legalized abortion, a major milestone in this battle for reproductive rights divorce rates skyrocketed, single parent mothers also skyrocketed, along with domestic abuse (more common where the man is not the father of the children). The only reason our birth rate hasn't plummeted like Japan is because of our immigrants.

So then in our society the vast majority of the poor are single parent families. The vast majority of kids in a gang are the kids of parents who cannot supervise them (single parent mothers working two jobs, likewise poor immigrants working multiple jobs with large families, etc).

Having a eusocial society requires the keeping of a covenant. The apes don't keep this covenant and they don't have this society. The laws in the Bible are the covenant that we keep so that we can live in a eusocial society. If someone doesn't want to keep those laws then they should not get the benefit of this society.