> Plenty of people don't want to have children, [....] In reality, the action(sex) has many other effects both beneficial and harmful. Sex is for reproduction,

> Plenty of people don't want to have children, [....] In reality, the action(sex) has many other effects both beneficial and harmful. Sex is for reproduction, plain and simple. Any other function - be it societal or psychological - has simply been tacked on. It might feel good to imbue it with some higher purpose, but in the end it is simply to perpetuate the genes. > As far as the purpose of life, [....] you have idea if life has a purpose. The purpose of life is life itself. Not in any eschatological sense, but in the sense that life perpetuates itself to perpetuate life. Because anything that didn't has died out a long time ago and anything that doesn't perpetuate itself will successfully remove itself from the pool of reproducing things. > Our ability to reason and evaluate ourselves [...] unique to us. People [...] die by willing [...] medical doctor and they'll tell you the will to fight and live in a [...] overcomed by disease. People are good at fooling themselves. They can even fool themselves into believing that they are rational actors. But humans are not thinking machines, we're reproduction machines. All the funny "humans are special" stuff is simply an outgrowth of excessive wealth.