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Is he legally able to? Sure. Too bad for the kid that will probably grow up never knowing his real father because the guy was too chicken-s***.

OP was crying earlier in this thread about how this is going to ruin all his hopes and dreams, but yet again, there are a few points consistently brought up that never got addressed by this dude...

1) What precisely is ruined to the point you'll never be able to do it due to this child?

2) What about the girl, who probably wants to actually finish school. If I recall correctly, OP is a college dropout - his GF is in school and he's worried about his career as a small-time poker player?

Yeah, OP has it so bad. There are about 1000 better options than bailing, but this kid isn't going to get to live the life of a gambler becuase of an unlucky break he knew was possible. Let's blame it on her. Just because she won't abort, now its more important for OP to be selfish and split, leaving his future child fatherless. But hey, I'm sure he'll enjoy gambling for child support checks.

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Maybe other people just aren't as "pro-life" as you. Sure, from your perspective, maybe those people are monsters. But from their own, which you seem to have no grasp of, things look quite different.

You can tell monster stories to yourself and your friends, but you can't expect anyone else to go along with it and cast himself as the monster just to make you happy. Maybe what's really going on is a little deeper than the boogeyman stories you're comfortable with.

Not everyone accepts your premises or thinks in black and white. Or thinks it a good thing that anybody does. So in a way your posts are not really interacting at all, but an oblique way of praising your settled opinions.

Venturing them is fine, of course. But thinking that they're particularly good, especially when they're so over the top and patently unbalanced and simplistic, is a mistake. You're mostly just talking to yourself when you lock off the discussion by assuming there's only one way to think and whoever doesn't agree is a bastard.

If he agreed in the first place, he wouldn't even be asking, now, would he? So what's the point of your rant?