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Dogs >>> humans
Life is meaningless. Dig far enough and everyone discovers this. The most time-tested way of avoiding complete existential despair is giving up the need to make your own life important and instead devoting yourself to your kids. (It’s a pyramid scheme, but it works) As you age, all but a small exception of people become increasingly irrelevant and lonely in the world. Kids and grandkids are the best shot for most at staying connected to the world and receiving some sort of honest, non transactional human interaction Is it “right” to fight existential despair and irrelevance in old age by having kids? I’m not sure. But good luck finding another way. People have been trying and failing at that for a very long time.
Anyone can come to the conclusion that life is meaningless. It's impressive to find meaning. Try that 😉
That is what I’m getting at. Most people who successfully find meaning find it in having kids. You can try an alternate route, but there’s nothing else with a proven track record.
lol @ "legacy"
You definitely won't have one if you don't want one
Lol, “having kids == selfish” was only said by someone who never woke up constantly in the middle of the night to feed them & sacrificed their body, money, free time and personal enjoyment for their sake
That sounds contradictory
If you adopted, sure. Otherwise you created new people so that you could have a genetically similar someone to selflessly devote yourself to. It’s like lighting a house on fire and then asking for credit for putting it out.
There are other reasons. Such as animal instinct. And then choosing to keep the kid.
Only God can choose
God is made by you.
focus of science
If you don’t have kids, you are depending on others to have kids. When you are old, those kids will grow the food, clothes and everything you need to live. That’s the real selfishness. Not having your own kid but depend on others.
If you overproduce and save money, it's still taking care of yourself. Currency / investment is a vehicle to defer your current production output to be consumed by you later. No different from working in the fields now and sitting inside eating from the harvest pile in the winter.
When there’s no one to make your bread, your savings means shit.