Anonymous Jun 23, 2011 at 10:54 pm

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Mother-fucking yes to the yes. Thank you, IAnon (heartsies).
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Hahahahaha I love this one!
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Homo sapiens: the only animal stupid enough to evolve to the point where it chooses not to procreate.
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Great call, I Anon!
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Meh. I always feel that people who bitch about overpopulation do so because they have nothing else to bitch about.
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if you choose to have a kid and you can afford to take care of it without welfare, then I say do it. As far as all those starving kids and orphans. That is someone else's mistake not something to stop me form having a child with the person I love
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As of the last census, white babies are now in the minority in the U.S. Also, statistics show that educated females are the ones least likely to have children. Thirdly, if you do not create offspring, you are a genetic dead end and as far as biology is concerned, you have failed as an organism. Fourthly, at the current rate of inter-racial marriage, natural redheads will be gone in the next 50 years. Fifthly, and finally, tests administered to me in school showed my IQ to be in the top one half of a % of the population. It is with all of these things in mind that I decided to enrich the human gene pool by procreating. You are welcome.
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In the future, when all your apocalyptic visions come true, my kid is going to steal your last bit of food from your old, withered hands and give it to me. That's why I had a kid.
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I love my children. I did NOT want to have them, I have discovered I would be dead without them. No responsibility leads to more drinking and irresponsible lifestyle's...NO working more does not make you happy, vacations are short lived, porsches blow up in flames when you drive too fast...My children give me a reason, you have none. Nothing or one to truly live for, you "think" the person your with will be there forever? Think again. Have fun dying alone.
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#7 The argument that 'without procreation, we're a dead end' only holds water if you think humans are a species that do some appreciable good for the world. We aren't integral parts of the ecosystems we inhabit, we're working really hard to suck this planet dry of it's flora, fauna, and anything we dub a "resource", and objectively speaking, it's difficult to argue that somehow we intrinsically belong here.

It may be a biological imperative, but if we're really being honest about it, that line of thought is itself a dead end.

#9 I would rather die alone than live my life in constant fear of the planet my children would inherit. That's one of the most selfish things I've heard this week.
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#10, your thought process is interesting. You are arguing that we aren't actually animals, or a part of the natural ecosystem. That somehow, to be a part of it, we must "do good for the world." Humans, as a species, are the only animals I know of that consciously even know or care about the fate of the world and other creatures on it.

Sure, some humans are horrible, greedy, eco-system destroying monsters. Then again, so are most insects. I'd hate to live in a world where army ants ruled, or locusts. I would wager more humans currently save other animals from death and suffering, than any other species on earth. We have people in Africa patrolling to save elephants and rhinos from poachers (at great risk to themselves.) We have Greenpeace activists fighting Japanese whalers. Some humans are other-species altruists. Some humans are hungry predators. However, I don't see any lions or hyenas forming groups to save the gazelles or going vegetarian in order to preserve the delicate balance of the savanna.

So, I guess I'll be an elitist asshole and say, SOME people belong here. And I will be arrogant enough to presume that I and my offspring are some of those people. And I can be hopeful enough to wish that me & my kids can be the kind of people to inspire everyone else to be the kind of humans you'd like to keep around. And I can be crazy and hope that someday, in the far future, when some giant asteroid comes zooming in or the sun explodes, it will be a human that will not only figure out a way to save themselves, but everyone else too (even locusts.)
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@robocat; You should read your own stuff....pretty selfish. You should try poking your eyes out and jumping off a bridge so you can leave this horrible horrible world. That is all, bye bye.
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We should just abopt a i-child policy the way China has. Except, unlike China, we ought to ENFORCE it more vigorously. Plus, not EVERYONE should be allowed to breed. We really ought to get real about our future on this planet - we're going to end up like The Road or some Soilent Green shit if we don't take precautions NOW.
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@bootness, I agree with you quite a bit. We're 100% animals! What makes us so interesting and potentially awesome, is also what makes us so dangerous. Though I'd like to, it's tough for me to get behind a "who belongs here" stance since, for me, it devolves into a "who enforces who belongs here" stance. And that's a slippery slope.

@Britney, except for not wanting to worry, I didn't say anything selfish. Having children so you don't have to be alone is fine. But don't bother acting altruistic about it.
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I don't argue with damos on this one robocat if you feel so strongly why do you continue to exist. Or for that matter what makes any species more important than another. I don't think picking up someone elses slack by forcing adoption or foster parenting is the way. However I do agree we need to take a lot more responsibility with our breeding
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i agree, quit wasting our resources and just end your own life already if you are so god damned worried about it. typical portland rant.
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No more natural redheads? That's the scariest thing I've ever read. Although I guess I'll be done dating before that happens.
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#15, good question... I don't have a good answer for why I continue to exist. I have answers for why I won't bring other people into the world, but perhaps, for others, those are empty philosophical arguments. For me, they're solid enough to shape the way I live my life; there's always room to change my mind though... so you never know.

I don't see where DamosA said anything like that, but again, I've been known to be wrong.
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Ouch. Yeah, who doesn't love kids? Gawd they're so fun and adorable. But really, we oughta have adoption as a much larger part of the national dialogue... isn't adoption a sort of realistic, practical common ground for the hugely contentious abortion debate?

We do need more awareness of how population size affects (most) other issues. Unchecked, unplanned growth is the common strategy of cancer and corporate capitalism.
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Fuck of, I Anon. Foster kids smell bad and grow up to be criminals. No one wants that shit in their house.

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