Camera roll on my phone for last 2 months is all pictures of Dash. Basically I now know what it's like to have human kids. But the dog is better really. Always listens. Protects me. Unconditional love. Can't fail at life and inevitably disappoint.
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Replying to @AdamSinger
Kids still better. They're way smarter than a dog, and you can watch a human consciousness emerge, and even shape it. Also, they outlive you.
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Replying to @antoniogm
I'm not super excited about the whole 'having to be conscious/ self-aware' thing so not forcing it on another. Seems cruel.
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Replying to @AdamSinger
That's anti-natalist sophistry. I've yet to see any of the serious promulgators of the view blow their brains out to undo the burden of consciousness.
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Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger
In our sheltered, untragic lives, children are the last thing that force you to become an adult. Without children (or serious hardship), humans themselves remain children. Which is why our bicoastal elite cities are largely populated by 18-year-olds of all ages.
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Replying to @antoniogm
Subjective take. I know plenty of older people with no children who are happy with that decision and very much 'adults'. Anyway there's 7 billion people now, the species is successful. There is no more burden on any single person to breed.
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Replying to @AdamSinger
They're far outnumbered by those who want to have kids, but can't, as our now-huge fertility industry attests. Also, they don't know what they're missing. Would you accept the opinion of the celibate on sex, or those who've never been in combat on war? No. Why accept theirs?
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Replying to @antoniogm @AdamSinger
Bingo. Having kids was the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. It pulls your head out of your own ass.
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Yup. Thing is, some people like keeping it there.
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