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Yes - but the people you impact in having kids is two - you and your child. Your world is your experience. Everyone impacted by online dry cleaning are never a
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
Yes - but the people you impact in having kids is two - you and your child. Your world is your experience. Everyone impacted by online dry cleaning are never a part of your experience beyond an intellectual experience. But your parenthood extends to the entirety of your world, and the world of another. The magnitudes aren’t orders - they’re infinite, as the life of someone in another city is as far as another universe.
By all means make the world better for all man. But realize for you it’s nothing, literally. For your own world, there is no greater impact than your child.
- DonHopkins 3y agoTell that to Hattie Louise and Thomas Midgley Sr, whose child had an enormous impact on the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. >His legacy is one of inventing the two chemicals that did the greatest environmental damage. Environmental historian J. R. McNeill stated that he "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." Author Bill Bryson remarked that he possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny." Science writer Fred Pearce described him as a "one-man environmental disaster".
- immibis 3y agoEveryone is someone's child. Attributing all the deeds anyone does to their parent is ridiculously reductive.