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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OP of that post here. I said that limiting your family to one child is a shame if the reason is to live in an overpriced area or because you insist on sending your kid to "just the right" private school and you can only afford to do that with one child. Children are not pets that you have mainly to magnify your own ego or just something to have as long as they don't intrude too much on your pursuit of material satisfaction. If you have a medical conditioon that makes it impractical to raise another child or your relationship falls apart, that's different. But if you have a child because you've always wanted an Audi and a baby and now that you have one of each, your needs are satisfied, that's pretty selfish. You and others (only kids and parents of only kids mainly) can get as snarky as you like, but it doesn't alter the fact that if the main consideration for your family size is YOU, YOU , YOU and what's most convient for YOU, YOU, YOU, then, yes, you're being very selfish.[/quote]
This little rant presupposes that having siblings is good for kids, all the time.  You've apparently taken that as an article of faith, and so if someone decided not to have multiple children for reasons you do not deem acceptable, they are very selfish.  You can't even allow for the possibility that someone could come to a different conclusion than you did.  Your dogmatic approach to this issue demonstrates the intellectual deficiency referred to earlier, and renders rational discussion pointless.

In other words, as to this issue, you're a tea-partier. [/quote]

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