[split] Ethics - parental responsibility re: children

[The Grand Nudger]

That’s one of the best parts about life. It’s a smorgasbord. No one asks us if we want to be born, but, otoh, none of us does anything to deserve all this wondrous possibility that so many people would and do kill and die for.

It’s a gift horse.

[Ahriman]

That’s one of the best parts about life.  It’s a smorgasbord.  No one asks us if we want to be born, but, otoh, none of us does anything to deserve all this wondrous possibility that so many people would and do kill and die for.

It’s a gift horse.

Yes, it is. Good metaphor.

[Rev. Rye]

And to top it all off, I'm not allowed to do anything fun anymore. I can't drink, I can't smoke weed, I can't edge to porn for hours at a time, nothing. It's like God wants me to be bored and miserable.

Why edge? Why not just ejaculate and get on with the rest of your life?

[Jehanne]

And to top it all off, I'm not allowed to do anything fun anymore. I can't drink, I can't smoke weed, I can't edge to porn for hours at a time, nothing. It's like God wants me to be bored and miserable.

Why edge? Why not just ejaculate and get on with the rest of your life?

I love the quote by Winston Churchill, "If you're going through hell, keep going."

[The Grand Nudger]

Shit Rev, that might be missing the larger question. Why not smoke as much as you want…drink as much as you want…do what you want - aaaaand get any orgasms in with a good friend?

[Ahriman]

All I know, is that if there was even a very small chance that my future son or daughter would hate his or her life as much as I hate mine......that's reason enough not to have children.

[Aegon]

This question has been pondered on for a millennia. Just read up, man. There's a whole fucking religion dedicated to figuring out what suffering is and how to escape it. Check it out, may be a good fit for you.

And yet suffering still exists. So obviously, that religion is not a good solution.

Uh dude the whole point of Buddhism is that you eventually come to the conclusion that suffering is something you do to yourself.

Like you are right now.

[The Grand Nudger]

At best , that leads to a comment about how it might be unethical to have a kid if that kid ends up like you, Ahri.

I can’t say I disagree.

[Ahriman]

At best , that leads to a comment about how it might be unethical to have a kid if that kid ends up like you, Ahri.

I can’t say I disagree.

A child/person with my intelligence, and my (now defunct) giving nature, wouldn't be such a bad thing. Of course, if he or she hated his or her life, it wouldn't matter what traits he or she had.

[The Grand Nudger]

Well, that would be deleterious to your many previous statements. If shit can be so worthless and garbage as to lead to a person like, you, and that's still not bad enough. I'll call this one doa.

You may be a degenerate piece of shit with no possible meamns of improvement - but that's just you....and that's alright...anyway. Doesn't, and cant, speak to anyone else who has kids who aren't you, and doesn't even speak as an ethical statement to people who have kids who are you. I guess the best any of us can do is hope that our kids don't...somehow, against all odds, come out like you.