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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just know how completely bizarre this conversation is in the history of life on earth. All living beings procreate. That's how life continues. It is fundamental and basic to all life on earth. [b]Only in the last 40 or 50 years has it become something people choose to do or not to do. [/b]It would sound as strange to someone in another time and culture as "why do you choose to eat?" or "why do you choose to sleep?" Having children does not need to be defended when it's the default condition of all life forms.

Speaking evolutionarily, your life technically is wasted if you don't pass along your genes. No need to get all maudlin and talk about Mother Theresa and all the other childless people out there who do good. Yes of course they improve the world while they are alive. But technically the point of life is to pass along your genes, in the long-term genetic competition within the species.[/quote]

I see that as a positive advancement. Our society would probably be a lot better off of having kids stopped being the default option & became more of a well thought-out choice.[/quote]

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