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It's the only intelligent choice, although I wouldn't blame anybody who chooses to have children. Having children made me feel more empathy for others. Once you
by dgut 9y ago
It's the only intelligent choice, although I wouldn't blame anybody who chooses to have children. Having children made me feel more empathy for others. Once you have experienced love for your own children, you feel more pity for those parents whose children live in pain, and for the children because you can feel their pain more intensely. Besides all the "small" human issues, such as mental issues as in this case, consider that human history is essentially a history of war and pain. I don't see any reason the future will be any different.
Oddly my comment is being downvoted. Most HNers act like a quasi religious group.
- tasty_freeze 9y agoThere are other choices. Adopting a child doesn't make the world any worse, most likely improves the life of that child, and grows your own sense of a purpose in life. > Most HNers act like a quasi religious group. That is a pretty broad brush.
- dgut 9y agoMaybe it grows your sense of anything, but for that child, life will never be quite right. Children who are adopted have a higher chance of developing mental disorders, alcoholism, major depression and so forth. [1] A portion of them go through a bumpy road before being adopted by the "right" parents, most are never adopted. About 140m children worldwide are orphans. [2] The event of being abandoned is already a very painful one with long-term consequences. If anything, this goes to prove my point. [1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-paradox-of-adoption/ https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-paradox-of-adoption/ [2] https://www.sos-usa.org/our-impact/childrens-statistics https://www.sos-usa.org/our-impact/childrens-statistics