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4490754 No.4490754 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a point in having children?

Is there a logical reason to have them or is it just a selfish act?

>> No.4490758

>>4490754
It would make it socially acceptable to watch cartoons and see Disney movies in theaters again.

>> No.4490786

>>4490754
It's just a selfish act, yes. And even if you want to be selfish (no reason not to), it's just stupid anyway. Please don't.

>> No.4490789

Having children is the biggest joy a man can have.

>> No.4490796

>>4490754
>>4490758
>>4490786
ITT: spoiled liberals

>> No.4490833

f to the e to the d to the o

to tha r to tha a

whats that spell?

U R GAY

it's not like any of you will ever even have a chance to get someone preggo fucking daft cunts

>> No.4490839

Being a parent is an incredible and wonderful adventure that I would trade in every other incredible and wonderful adventure for.

>> No.4490853

>selfishness isn't logical

>> No.4490855

Logic does not dictate aughts.

>> No.4491045

>>4490754
>>4490786
Why is it selfish? Giving all you have to your offspring is hardly selfish. I'm just trying to understand your logic here.

>> No.4491052

yeah people said procreation was pretty much the basic premise for existence. well, with resource shortages that changes. here is why you have children today. so you have something to post about on facebook because otherwise your life is boring and too ordinary for your damned ego.

>> No.4491057

>>4490754

What the fuck does this have anything to do with literature?

>> No.4491279

People are pretty much forced to have children to maintain societal infrastructure. While rats,pigs, etc., if rational, could afford the decision to stop reproduction, we have created a population-demanding system which people depend on for wellbeing. The integrity of our individuals depends on the societal mechanisms which humanity has created, unlike other species which simply depend on a natural habitat. In order to shirk reproduction, humans would have to agree to disassemble their very livelihood for the 'greater good,' which is severely unlikely and not worth the hassle.

>> No.4491293

>>4491057
if you don't have kids, you have more free time to read. conversely, if you do have kids, you can expose them to literature and ensure that more people are reading at a slight expense of your reading time.

>> No.4491312

>>4490754
>Is there a logical reason to have them or is it just a selfish act?
>or

>> No.4491316
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4491316

When you have kids, you are essentially creating more taxpayers who will help run the country when you are dead. So there is no shame is having a ton of kids, if anything you are ensuring the country's future is safe when you do so. Also being a parent is great and most people don't regret it no matter how difficult it is.

>> No.4491330

If you have happy children who make other people happy, then you're increasing the total amount of happiness in the world, so that's pretty much is ethical.
But isn't it more ethical to donate all the money that you saved by not having children to education in africa?

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4491340

I see it as a way of passing on the world's problems for those who either don't care, or don't believe themselves to be capable of facing them here and now.

>> No.4491354

for every time a liberal tells me they're not going to have kids or encourages other people not to, I'm going to impregnate another woman.

>> No.4491360

I would like to have children, but I also love to expend time with myself, and every family I know who have kids suffer from a great decrease in personal private-time. When I came home from work, around 06:15pm I sit down to write and do it until 09:00pm or even 10:00pm. But if you have children forget about it. So: a job + children = forget about writing.

The males of our grandpa’s generation where the wise ones: they keep their wife’s at home taking care of children and were free to go to their jobs, do extra work and even go to bars and parties without them. They had free-sex + private full-time maids on their wife’s, but today you and your girl will have to share your time taking care of children and so your plans are all going to whiter and die.

>> No.4491362

>>4491354
Let's stop polarizing things with liberal/conservative. It just makes for ignorance on both parts. I don't want kids, I don't see any reason to. But you and every other person has every right to if you want to.

>> No.4491366

>>4490754
It is entirely logical to behave selfishly.

>> No.4491373

>>4491362
You don't see any reason to perpetuate your genetic lineage or the human species?

>> No.4491380

>>4491373
No and especially not for the reasons you mention.

>> No.4491381

>>4491362
do you see reason to vote?

>> No.4491382

>>4490754

Logic plays a very small part in life, and life is a sequence of selfish acts. Just embrace it.

>> No.4491383

>>4491380
Rebelling against your very nature. How bleak.

>> No.4491387

>>4490754
why, to grow your very own sex slaves, of course.

>> No.4491392

>>4491383
It's obviously not my nature, since there's no unavoidable imperative? Can I fly or float if I stopped believing in gravity?

>> No.4491412

>>4490754

Most people feel a desire to have and rear children. If you don't feel it, you don't feel it.

Points and logic have nothing much to do with it.

I'm somewhere in between. My desire isn't that strong, but I don't fancy being old and alone and having no one who gives a shit about me, so I'll have kids. Of course, they may still not give a shit about me...