haha yah, thanks mate.

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It'd still be better to keep them on for as long as possible until they risk fucking shit up like cutting your mouth

Even if you get them off, you wont have a retainer, and the longer they sit in position, the less likely they'll go back to maximum fuck up in a week

Your teeth don't move back very quickly, but the point is that in a post apocalyptic world, it doesn't really matter if your teeth are straight or not.

As for cutting your mouth, it doesn't really take much to get them off. A tine of a fork underneath one and the slightest leverage will pop them off, and possible injury from this motion is very minor. A small cut in the mouth isn't going to do much unless it gets infected but that could happen anywhere on your body at any time.

Having braces complicates oral hygiene massively, and orthodontists even give you special tools to use for proper cleaning. Finding a toothbrush and toothpaste in the post apocalypse will be challenging on its own, let alone finding brace flossers and brushers. So, having braces with minimal cleaning is going to increase your risk for disease and infection if you keep them on.

Along with this, braces can rub the soft tissue of the mouth and produce sores at random times, and taking a hit to the mouth can produce horrendous lacerations that in a normal environment can necessitate oral stitches and even surgery. In a post apocalypse, that could mean death because you got punched or fell on your face.

Braces also complicate eating.

The vast majority of braces are applied for cosmetic purposes, so there's nothing lost if you take them off, and leaving them on isn't going to achieve anything without an orthodontist.

Honestly, this conflict would make for a pretty anticlimactic plot unless the main character's braces were for genuine health reasons, but even then, it would be much more believable if the writer went down the chronic illness path like with asthma or diabetes.

well in a post apocolyptic world it would really matter why you had them in the first place. my dad got them because his eye teeth fucked with his sinuses and caused a health risk. one of my bottom middle teeth is sideways but it would be a purely cosmetic thing to fix

eye teeth?

Of course those would cause problems Papa synth confirmed

most people refer to them as canines. i cant remember if it was too far forward or too far up but they affected his breathing at night

again you are judging them based on the opportunities your parents gave you in suburbia

You shouldn't judge people like that. I get it, you disagree with me, but I know what I'm talking about. While I'm not going to pretend I was as bad off as they are, I grew up several levels down from suburbia, and had very few opportunities given to me by my parents. Very little more than the necessities.

Growing up my bedroom was the size of most of my peer's bathrooms, and the bathroom of my house the size of their closets. My peers had garages the size of my house. Didn't fully fit in until I could pay for my own clothes by getting a job, and didn't get a girlfriend in highschool because I was embarrassed to bring anyone to my house. I moved out of my house at my first chance. My car, clothes, food, and eventually my living quarters were all payed for by me as soon as I was able to pay for them. I don't know what it's like to be rich yet, but I know poverty pretty well. I understand I still had it better than a good amount of people, but most people had it better than me, so no, I do know what it's like to feel inadequate because of your family's means.

So, like I was saying, I can relate to people like that, but only if they are forced to be in that situation, and have the will to improve their lives.

I have had the will to improve mine, and I have improved it. I think it is easier for me not because I am white, but because I can see opportunities without being clouded by white hate.

Slavers and the vast majority of white racists now lie dead in the ground where they belong. White privilege, (I'm speaking first hand here), died along with them. The space white privilege once took up is now filled by diversity quotas, minority scholarships, counter-racism, and fake gangsters. Welcome to 2015.

yes.

fun fact philosophy is a good major or minor to have to go into law school cause it teaches you how to see positibilities beyond what you yourself were taught. education is the key to objectivity.

this is why i get offended by feminism a lot. it's not the man in me offended it's the scientist in me that gets offended when you can just say stuff without evidence

i am an asshole. i like it better it gets the other side off their game. basically like the conner mcgregor and aldo fight. he got into his head so hard that he won the fight before it started.

rydejbudde is gay