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I was very careful to separate the financial difference and the cultural difference, and I feel like you're ignoring that. Having kids at all is not a basic hu

by khafra 15y ago

I was very careful to separate the financial difference and the cultural difference, and I feel like you're ignoring that. Having kids at all is not a basic human need on the level of food, water, and shelter. It is a biological urge, similar to the urge for french fries. Now, I don't personally think that eating a reasonable serving of french fries while getting adequate exercise is blameworthy; nor do I think that buying a Lambourghini while earning $10M/year is blameworthy; nor do I think that having children you can afford and care for is blameworthy. I do think that it's silly for popular culture to have sympathy and often admiration for unprepared parents, but scorn and derision for indebted luxury car owners. FWIW, I am childless and drive a VW.

tsunamifury 15y ago
Your ignorance shows when you seem to think financial stability can be reached by most of the world. The reality is that most people will never achieve any sort of stability, living day to day, taking risks as they will. Effectively you are telling the majority of people on this planet they don't deserve the right to have children.
- khafra 15y ago
  What gives people the right to bring children into the world when they may not be able to support them properly? These are human lives we're talking about. I cannot think of any arrogance greater than assuming functioning genitals gives you the right to irretrievably screw up an innocent person. This kind of "I'm going to make babies and you can't stop me!" attitude is what created the Iron Law of Wages.
  - khafra 15y ago
    Wow. Downvoted with no explanation. Not a single counter-argument ever given. I thought this would be one place I could question the attitude that popping out babies with no thought for the future is the god-given right of every person on earth. Looks like, even here, that's something you just can't say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

by khafra 15y ago

tsunamifury 15y ago

Your ignorance shows when you seem to think financial stability can be reached by most of the world. The reality is that most people will never achieve any sort of stability, living day to day, taking risks as they will. Effectively you are telling the majority of people on this planet they don't deserve the right to have children.

khafra 15y ago
What gives people the right to bring children into the world when they may not be able to support them properly? These are human lives we're talking about. I cannot think of any arrogance greater than assuming functioning genitals gives you the right to irretrievably screw up an innocent person. This kind of "I'm going to make babies and you can't stop me!" attitude is what created the Iron Law of Wages.
- khafra 15y ago
  Wow. Downvoted with no explanation. Not a single counter-argument ever given. I thought this would be one place I could question the attitude that popping out babies with no thought for the future is the god-given right of every person on earth. Looks like, even here, that's something you just can't say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html