1) seriouscrayons uses my quote to suggest it supports a point by JW
Yes. But I suggested that it
unwittingly supported a point by Jeff -- that your response indicated you had misunderstood Jeff's point to the extent that, in attempting to argue your own position, you inadvertently were reinforcing his.
JW salutes seriouscrayons for stating this opinion.
3) JW then refers to the same quote as bizarre thinking.
Very, very strange.
Not really. If you read all of the posts more carefully you will see that my criticism of your post, and Jeff's description of bizarre thinking, applied to
two different weaknesses in your argument.
The first, the point that Jeff initially made and that I repeated, is that you did not seem to consider the suffering of the children -- whose only mistake was to be born -- into the "tough love" equation.
And as I understand Jeff's critique, the second weakness, the aspect he called bizarre, is that you seemed to suggest that a woman, when having children, could be expected to foresee future changes in welfare policy and plan her pregnancies accordingly.