Reply With QuoteI'm sure some on the board would argue that you haven't really lived *until* you've had a kid.Originally Posted by WinterRose
And no this isn't meant to be mean or insulting to the folks that WANT to have kids. More power to ya. I've got a godson in Seattle as a matter of fact. That said... Me and Macha's have talked about it rather frequently. She likes little kids, works with them professionally, wants to help them get out of abusive situations, and that's about all the kids she wants in her life.
Me? I don't consider that I've REALLY lived yet. There's WAY too much I want to see and experience that having a kid would put beyond my reach. Having a kid constitutes a commitment to sacrifice every damn thing in my life to make sure that kid gets raised right. I don't consider that I've really gotten a chance to live and see the world to my satisfaction yet. Nor do I think I ever will. So I'm unwilling to sacrifice all that opportunity for the ultimate responsibility. (I can't even afford to house and feed myself at the moment. Nevermind a kid.)
Are there others among you that feel no desire to add another life to the world?
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I'm sure some on the board would argue that you haven't really lived *until* you've had a kid.
So you're an anti-breeder?
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I'm sure they might. However, you can't UN-have a kid. Therefore, you do all the stuff you can't do WITH a kid first if it's your intention to DO that stuff. Life's too short to be able to do the kid thing THEN do that stuff. One path tends to eliminate the other, from my own viewpoint.
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You won't have a kid. You'll BUILD a kid.
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Well, by all means, don't reproduce if you feel that way. But I promise you, if and when you do decide to have a kid, you'll realize how trivial your life was before, and how much better it is now that you're a dad.
Plus, your deathbed will be lonely without some children and grandchildren to hold hands with.
And it's amazing how they've all tricked themselves into believing this.
Personally, I'd love to have a child, but I can't see myself being that willing to give up that much time to raising it. I enjoy reading comics and taking naps and having sex when I want to and just having plenty of free time too much to give it up.
My attitude is "never say never". I'm not sure I want kids right now, but I'm not going to run out and get a vasectomy. But I won't question your choice. You seem to have thought it out pretty damn well.
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Well, I do think as a society we could stand to not try for a gross amount of kids per nuclear unit. But I'm not gonna say don't have em if you want em. The only time I tend to get anti breeder is when I see people having 6 kids when they had no business even having 1. The sort that beat the shit out of them, rape them, can't feed them, don't give a shit about them after they're older than the age of three...
I wouldn't say I was Anti-Breeder. I'm Pro-nonprocreationist. I'd say they're rather discriminated against in our society today.
I feel remarkably unburdened with the need to explain, justify or defend anything I say, feel or do online to any self-entitled anonymous snarkwit who feels I owe their point of view a form of cogent argument or debate. Life is too short to stress myself arguing with strangers over minutiae. Ya don't like it, ignore me and go read something else. -WinterRose
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