This advert for condoms cracked me up

[Asbo]

 

[Asbo]

there's more of them! Was on Jon Ross show last week, just watching on sky+

 

[snoogit]

/waits for the George W Bush ad

 

[Asbo]

I think thats the only three snoog. Cant find anymore.

My point, it makes no sense. the implication is that babies made that are unplanned turn out to be bad?? Is that what its saying?

edit: I know they are not real adverts (I hope), but usually joke ads on the web are better thought through than this

 

[snoogit]

I think thats the only three snoog. Cant find anymore.

I figured since it was European there would be one

 

[plot]

i find them to be funny.

 

[snoogit]

i find them to be funny.

Mao is my favorite.

 

[Asbo]

Mao is my favorite.

yeah, his little mole made me lol

 

[APRIL]

Freakanomics says that unplanned babies in bad environments that are not terminated have a higher possibility to turn out bad.

I totally chopped it up. I'll try to get a direct quote later.

Basically, legal abortion lowers crime rates.

 

[Thorn Bird]

i got it that if you're not careful, you could be having the next very infamous person.

 

[Jonny_B]

Freakanomics says that unplanned babies in bad environments that are not terminated have a higher possibility to turn out bad.

I totally chopped it up. I'll try to get a direct quote later.

Basically, legal abortion lowers crime rates.

Freakonomics

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf

We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed signiŽcantly to
recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion
legalization. The Žve states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines
earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.
States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime
reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after
abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears
to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime.

 

[Asbo]

Basically, legal abortion lowers crime rates.

that makes me feel sick.

 

[fly]

that makes me feel sick.

Why?

 

[ZRH]

Jonny beat me. There should be a debunking freakonomics thread just because some people took it as literal truth instead of statistic trends.

 

[Asbo]

Why?

because it means that by aborting all these poor people that may go on to have miserable lives crime would be reduced. Orwellian, JG Ballard, Huxley etc.

 

[Jonny_B]

Jonny beat me. There should be a debunking freakonomics thread just because some people took it as literal truth instead of statistic trends.

right. there's no proving the absolute truth of such assertions because there are far too many variables. however, through careful statistical analysis a correlation can be shown which may tend to imply causation.

 

[JAXvillain]

Freakanomics says that unplanned babies in bad environments that are not terminated have a higher possibility to turn out bad.

I totally chopped it up. I'll try to get a direct quote later.

Basically, legal abortion lowers crime rates.

<--- case in point

 

[APRIL]

because it means that by aborting all these poor people that may go on to have miserable lives crime would be reduced. Orwellian, JG Ballard, Huxley etc.

I am missing your point.

 

[APRIL]

Jonny beat me. There should be a debunking freakonomics thread just because some people took it as literal truth instead of statistic trends.

Isn't everything said basically based off of statistical trends?

Anyways, it makes complete sense. Please try to debunk the senseness of it.

 

[ZRH]

I think he is trying to say that it makes it all seem very New World Order-ish

maybe

I could be wrong