For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters

Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by hotpotamus on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:21AM (#35227247)

5 billion years of little more than random biochemical interactions. It hasn't felt like much of a gift so far, though I suppose the pain of living with a crippling illness might color that view a bit. Still if I could choose to continue to exist, I might actually, but unless there are some serious technical advances (or if you believe those Catholics), then extinction is coming for me and all of us. Creating children consigned to suffer the same fate in some futile quest for immortality seems like far too heavy a burden to place on them.

I am however intrigued that you appear to have created an account just to reply to me. That is a novel experience.

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Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by devolve848392 on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:19AM (#35227589)

You’ve got good grammar for a random series of biochemical interactions. I’m not a pessimist of either the Christian or secular variety. I’m an optimist who views dooming as a bludgeon miserable people use to make others miserable, too, while cloaking themselves in piety so they can keep getting away with it.

Anyway, yes, I have a soft spot for people who are obviously smart but stuck in a rut, and contemplating what I view as a form of suicide (not reproducing). We need smart people to reproduce. So I feel an obligation to rattle your cage a bit, but some people might take that the wrong way. Hence the new account.

Maybe your illness gets you off the hook, but Stephen Hawking had children.

One thing I find ironic is that you’ve adopted a Christian worldview in a strange way - through your suffering you are saving your children from damnation.

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