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What's So Terrible About Kids?
ackblom12:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jan 2013, 17:50 ---There's nothing like optimism!
Realistically, some predictions are far short of what we achieve, but others turn out to be pie in the sky.
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Well, if we survive I don't think it's terribly optimistic, just inevitable. If we don't make it to the end of the century we're either going to be on our way to extinction or at the very least will have dropped below a point in civilization we won't be able to recover from.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 09 Jan 2013, 18:45 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jan 2013, 17:50 ---There's nothing like optimism!
Realistically, some predictions are far short of what we achieve, but others turn out to be pie in the sky.
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Well, if we survive I don't think it's terribly optimistic, just inevitable. If we don't make it to the end of the century we're either going to be on our way to extinction or at the very least will have dropped below a point in civilization we won't be able to recover from.
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Start yer doomsday prepping while sales last, folks! (Yeah, that's by backup plan...though I haven't really gotten started with it)
idontunderstand:
--- Quote from: Cambyses on 09 Jan 2013, 16:28 ---
--- Quote ---But then we would lose our humanity. Is the future of the planet more important than humanity?
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I'm not really sure what you mean here. How would this necessarily make us lose our "humanity?"
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No, that post was in response to what sitnspin wrote. I fucked up and forgot to quote. Sorry.
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 09 Jan 2013, 08:08 ---
--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 09 Jan 2013, 02:46 ---I know what you're saying, I just feel it's a narrow perspective. "Very little justification", what, I need a justification to have children, but you don't need one to not have one? If we're not free to do what we want with our bodies, our society is not worth saving and we can just give it all up right now.
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Does NOT performing an action require justification? Not unless it is a mandatory action or if not performing it would cause harm. I would say one needs justification to not call 911 in an emergency, but no justification would be required to not go to McDonald's for lunch.
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Yes, there are plenty of situations where NOT performing an action could require a justification. That's not the point, however, I'm just saying that I shouldn't be required to justify something that's so personal and so invariably connected to what I choose to do with my body (and the body of the to-be-mother of the child), which is the same reason you are not required to justify NOT doing it.
Welu:
I'm not entirely sure if you mean justify something, as in explaining to a particular person who asks or if you mean no reason is needed for either choice. The first scenario I totally agree you don't have to justify anything to them because it's your business but the second, I think more reason is needed for having a child than just, "Why not?"
Not saying that's what you specifically are saying, just talking generally.
idontunderstand:
Yeah, I meant the first. Of course you should carefully consider if you want a child or not.
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