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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by CRConrad on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:08PM (#30951851)
> If that’s how a person without kids feels, isn’t having kids just creating another person who has to have kids to find meaning in their life (and on and on and on)?

OK, so the meaning of our lives is to perpetuate the species. Not too bad; if it's good enough for (the other) animals, why not for us too?

Ya want anything beyond that, it would logically have to be to make mankind of the future a better species than right now. Which of course you do by making your kids better persons than you are. So then you're back to them again.

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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by paulcole on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:29PM (#30952690)
> if it's good enough for (the other) animals, why not for us too?

My cat drinks from the toilet.

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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by CRConrad on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:27AM (#30953915)
It's water. I drink water too. I didn't lick my kid clean when he was a baby either, but on the level of having him in the first place your cat and I -- and you -- have more in common than not.
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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by paulcole on Friday April 08, 2022 @07:29AM (#30955665)
Yeah except as people we have options for how to respond to our needs and instincts.

We can open a bottle of Evian instead of drinking from the toilet. We can cook an Impossible Burger instead of stalking, hunting, and devouring a cardinal in the front yard. We can run a bath instead of licking ourselves. We can realize having kids is a terrible choice given what we know about the world and choose to not have them.

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