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Kids - what's the point?

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  • #252
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I honestly think this is why a lot of people have babies and weddings, because of social expectations

    But from your other posts seemingly you would like to see a social expectation and pressure not to have children? Just as bad. :confused:


  • #253
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    I sometimes see noisy misbehaving kids and think to myself - "little b****x!".

    Then I think that I was that little b****x once, and I think about how good my Dad was with me, and it inspires the nurturer in me to want to pass on the same magical childhood memories to my kids that I was given.

    Also, slave-labour :pac:


  • #254
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    saa wrote: »
    But from your other posts seemingly you would like to see a social expectation and pressure not to have children? Just as bad. :confused:

    I can't make sense of what you've said here sorry


  • #255
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I can't make sense of what you've said here sorry
    You seem to believe that people shouldn't have children because of ethical reasons = social pressure.

    Which is just as bad as the social pressure to have children to please others.


  • #256
    smokedeels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    I think I'll end up having one just to have something in common with my breeder-friends.


  • #257
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    saa wrote: »
    You seem to believe that people shouldn't have children because of ethical reasons = social pressure.

    Which is just as bad as the social pressure to have children to please others.

    Well I think we need to strive towards our planet having less people yes, or else we're all f*cked. So that's more of a necessity than saving graces.


  • #258
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Well I think we need to strive towards our planet having less people yes, or else we're all f*cked. So that's more of a necessity than saving graces.

    Well then direct your pressures and judgements towards government because most babies are not planned so how can people plan to have less unplanned babies (from failed contraceptives or having no access to them).


  • #259
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    saa wrote: »
    Well then direct your pressures and judgements towards government because most babies are not planned so how can people plan to have less unplanned babies (from failed contraceptives or having no access to them).

    Less population is not good for capitalism, capitalist governments are only concerned with GDP and growth. They want us to produce more. I'm a nihilist.


  • #260
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Well I think we need to strive towards our planet having less people yes, or else we're all f*cked.

    Mass genocide?


  • #261
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    smash wrote: »
    Mass genocide?

    We don't need to go that far, just mass sterilization


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  • #262
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Just to put something into perspective here. You say you're a nihilist so:

    "Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value."

    So you believe in a life without objectives, values etc. Yet a lot of people have the objective in life of having children and a family and for that reason you feel the need to insult them by saying it's pointless?


  • #263
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Less population is not good for capitalism, capitalist governments are only concerned with GDP and growth. They want us to produce more. I'm a nihilist.

    Gov's don't want this population boom within the context of the global recourse crisis opposed to an economic context, they just can't control it. So what you're saying is still tangential for the reason that its not really the crux of the issue here for you (or anyone here really). You do sound like you really want to be sufficient in a societal way and for not having children you do not meet the apparent "normal" requirements, so what, why are you reliant on society to approve or disapprove your life choices.


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