memes, or genes...

[Doug Pensinger]

Julia wrote:

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> Would you consider some excuses to be reasonable?


Of course.  The one I think is lame, though, is that they are somehow saving
the planet by deciding not to have children.

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>
> And, if responsible, enlightened people are having children, at what point
> do they get to decide how many is enough?


Of course I'm not proposing that anyone be forced to do anything.  I just
think that the idea that a couple is being more responsible by _not_ having
children is pure bulls__t unless there are real mitigating circumstances; if
you don't have the means or the temperament or even the desire to have
children.

I just don't want to hear that there is some beneficent altruistic sacrifice
being made.

Doug