RavynousHunter on 14/7/2009 at 09:04
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
I would argue that conceiving children in order to achieve those goals is probably one of the least efficient methods one could possibly come up with.
Especially when one could always rule the world in a totally bitchin dictatorship designed to get us out of this damned world. Of course, failing that, you could always become some well-known political dude or just become the President.
rachel on 14/7/2009 at 09:41
As the bard told us,
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Vasquez on 14/7/2009 at 13:08
Quote Posted by RavynousHunter
Especially when one could always rule the world in a totally bitchin dictatorship designed to get us out of this damned world. Of course, failing that, you could always become some well-known political dude or just become the President.
Well, those
do have more of an impact to the world as individual acts than just reproducing. The impact can also be beneficial, like discovering a cure or vaccine for a deadly disease or something like that.
Of course you can do (and many do) any of the above
and have kids, but if we're talking about "something meaningful to leave behind" in a larger sense than what's important to you personally, I agree with Shadowcat. It requires more than having a kid.
I just don't think I'm so special that the mankind would be worse off even if there's nothing of me left behind. And personally I won't care either way anyway once I'm dead :)
Martin Karne on 14/7/2009 at 13:22
Hey look people cares about what I care, who cares.
If you don't like the fact that we are way too many on this planet, you shall feel the food crisis sooner than later.
The chinese are buying farming grounds in Brazil to feed their own people, doesn't this says anything at all to you?
Half of the fish population at the seas is down to 50% because of over fishing, doesn't this neither rings an alarm bell?
A big human population crash might be very close, just around the corner indeed, then you might ask yourself why you brought some company along in this disaster.
gunsmoke on 14/7/2009 at 19:26
My girlfriend and I have been thinking about, and planning for, a probable birth in the near-future. Strange thing is, after a wild and rowdy Saturday night, she goes and gets the (
http://www.go2planb.com/) Plan B pill the very next morning and takes it. She won't talk about it, either. :mad:
D'Juhn Keep on 14/7/2009 at 20:02
reading between the lines I'd say she doesn't want a baby
Gingerbread Man on 14/7/2009 at 21:37
I'd just like to point out that I'll gladly accept any babies you guys don't want. They must be between the ages of 2 and 6, have a full set of healthy teeth, and the ability to work themselves up into a raging bloodlust which can only be quenched with the blood of my enemies.
PO Box 7728, Port Harridan, Uelekevu.
tia
june gloom on 14/7/2009 at 21:43
There's a creepy guy in a tophat and longcoat who hangs out on the street corners in Covington, KY around Christmas time who'd be happy to take unwanted babies.
