> there's no rule that says we _have_ to give to our descendants anything at all The rules of genetic reproduction disagree. You have to give your descendants

> there's no rule that says we _have_ to give to our descendants anything at all The rules of genetic reproduction disagree. You have to give your descendants the information how to grow into a human, or they aren't descendants by definition. Since we've been steadily reducing genetic information in favor of learned information, by extension you have to teach your children how to be functional human beings, in absence of instinct, or they grow up mentally disabled (in the wider context of society). Furthermore, inheritance laws literally say you have to give some of your wealth to your descendants. It's 50% in my country. Sure you can spend it all before you die but that's sidestepping the existence of the rules, which very much exist.