The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhappy at work?

Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by emodendroket on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:40AM (#11785925)

If that urge is really so deep, then why do so many people voluntarily not have children, or have fewer children than they could? If your main goal is to dominate the gene pool it seems clear that the best strategy is to sire as many children as possible.

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by FilterSweep on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:06PM (#11786909)

Cost, artificially-induced social stigma, time investment, and the foolish belief that hard work would procure partner with better genetic material, mainly.

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by emodendroket on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:07PM (#11787349)

Many of those don't explain all the married couples electing not to have children. If cost and time investment are the concern, we might surmise that the urge to rule the genetic pool is not really so innate and irrepressible after all.

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by FilterSweep on Friday May 27, 2016 @02:09PM (#11787779)

What about the couples marrying for reasons other than having children? Or the couples incapable of having children?

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by emodendroket on Friday May 27, 2016 @03:20PM (#11788257)

What about them? If the urge to affect the gene pool is so irrepressible, the reason you married doesn't matter; you should still, instinctively, yearn for children.

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