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Re:The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids by menschmanfred on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:11AM (#39259872)
You could have asked my why I think it is selfish.

I believe creating new life is playing 'god'.

It's easier to never exist than life life.

This has nothing to do what you thought

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Re:The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids by mcphage on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:59PM (#39264316)
> I believe creating new life is playing 'god'.

That's an unusual definition of "playing god", since it includes something that pretty much every life form back to the earliest single-cellular bacteria does.

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Re:The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids by menschmanfred on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:33AM (#39271818)
Those are not self aware and can't think about the implications
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Re:The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids by mcphage on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:07AM (#39274949)
> Those are not self aware

I'm not sure I do this most of the time.

> can't think about the implications

I definitely don't do this bit.

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