(post not aimed at any particular member)
Perhaps for those opposed to self-imposed sterilization, it's just a question of which life brings you more happiness. Life with children, or life without children. Perhaps they cannot separate the love they have for their existing children with the love that they think a person in the near future would feel for a child that has never existed. If that's the case, it isn't fair. It's apples and oranges.
I guess I should clarify that although I love my son more than words can express, I am not any more overall happier now than I was in my 20's. I'm also not any worse. Both chapters of my life had their own pros and cons. Had my son never been born, I would still have a full and happy life. There's a reason people who lived in the 17th century didn't long for refrigerators and PS3s. They never had them.
I can honestly say that if I were 27 years old, living on a planet with 10 billion people and someone came to me urging me and all my neighbors not to make children because earth was on the brink of complete and utter destruction within one decade, well, I gotta tell ya ... I would willingly comply.
For two reasons:
The most important one of which is that my child would have the shittiest and shortest life imaginable with absolutely no hope and my resulting sorrow would be overwhelming. Which of course would make it easy to have reason number two:
There might be at least some chance that I will not only survive but still have a good life, free from the worry of a world about to kill my children and grand children.
It's like Shell B once told me ... I do indeed give a shit. I'm not apathetic. Even when I lose hope, somewhere inside of me I still want to us to overcome our own stupidity. The simplest solution I can see (and it will probably never happen) is to simply quit making babies every 6 minutes. If there's no new people to suck up the resources, we'll stop contaminating our planet to get them.
Meanwhile, when we do invent light speed travel and a clean reusable fuel, we can return to breeding as usual.
Perhaps for those opposed to self-imposed sterilization, it's just a question of which life brings you more happiness. Life with children, or life without children. Perhaps they cannot separate the love they have for their existing children with the love that they think a person in the near future would feel for a child that has never existed. If that's the case, it isn't fair. It's apples and oranges.
I guess I should clarify that although I love my son more than words can express, I am not any more overall happier now than I was in my 20's. I'm also not any worse. Both chapters of my life had their own pros and cons. Had my son never been born, I would still have a full and happy life. There's a reason people who lived in the 17th century didn't long for refrigerators and PS3s. They never had them.
I can honestly say that if I were 27 years old, living on a planet with 10 billion people and someone came to me urging me and all my neighbors not to make children because earth was on the brink of complete and utter destruction within one decade, well, I gotta tell ya ... I would willingly comply.
For two reasons:
The most important one of which is that my child would have the shittiest and shortest life imaginable with absolutely no hope and my resulting sorrow would be overwhelming. Which of course would make it easy to have reason number two:
There might be at least some chance that I will not only survive but still have a good life, free from the worry of a world about to kill my children and grand children.
It's like Shell B once told me ... I do indeed give a shit. I'm not apathetic. Even when I lose hope, somewhere inside of me I still want to us to overcome our own stupidity. The simplest solution I can see (and it will probably never happen) is to simply quit making babies every 6 minutes. If there's no new people to suck up the resources, we'll stop contaminating our planet to get them.
Meanwhile, when we do invent light speed travel and a clean reusable fuel, we can return to breeding as usual.
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