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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:51PM (#24994313)
>And once they look away, they'll find that they have nothing; they've poured their efforts into something that has left them with no real status in society.

>Similarly, people using robotic devices in this way will have poured something rather different into them but the result is still the same;

I agree that a stable family is the ideal but I fail to see how spending your money on sex dolls is worse than getting divorced in your late 20s or early 30s and getting stuck paying for kids for a decade or more. Those people manage just fine.

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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by randallsquared on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:38PM (#24994913)
> I agree that a stable family is the ideal but I fail to see how spending your money on sex dolls is worse than getting divorced in your late 20s or early 30s and getting stuck paying for kids for a decade or more.

But the point of the stable family IS the kids.

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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by AstralStorm on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:04AM (#24996453)
No, the point of a stable family is the relationships. Kids may be one of those relationships.

The point of reproduction is kids, and they can happen without a stable family as well... Quite often in fact. And they can be raised in different arrangements too, like wards of state and in kibbutzim, which is implemented right are not destructive. Or even by single parents (but that one is hard) or by surrogates who have a stable family.

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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday November 06, 2020 @06:35AM (#25006887)
Or by another kind of robot :)
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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by lovegoblin on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:09AM (#24995832)
> getting stuck paying for kids

It is telling that this is how you frame "caring for your own children."

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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by jejones3141 on Friday November 06, 2020 @08:31PM (#25012615)
There are those who have been stuck paying for kids who are not their children. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/man-forced-to-pa...
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Re:The Economics of Sex Robots by 411111111111111 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:05AM (#24996225)
You don't get to care for your kids in the parents scenario though.
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