Getting children, in the current situation, is among the most idiotic things you can do. It also creates yet another person capable of suffering, and birth dosn't have an undo button.
There is no strict biological imperative for it either; humans are adaptation executers not fitness maximizers. Your GENES want you to reproduce, but you are NOT your genes, if anything you are your MEMES, so if there are any imperatives involved they are about preaching not ****ing.
Not to dredge this up and open any more wounds or open myself to flaming, but here goes.
Armok, I used to think the exact same thing. I have had a pretty rough life by most peoples' standards. Granted, I've never been used as a slave or shot, but those are pretty much the only things I've never gone through. Life has not been kind to me. However, I realize that I have a chance to change things. I can teach my child to be better than the rest of those slobs out there in the world. I can teach my child compassion, and equality, and morality, and curiosity, and skepticism, and all the things that I hold dear. I can give her skills, and I can teach her to be a good person. I anticipate having one more child, because one day my wife and I will cease to be, and I would like there to be at least as many like minded people in the world when we are no longer here.
Changing the world can be done, but it has to be done one person at a time.
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