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Yeah. The guy who explicitly stated people who are too old to have children aren't worth saving is the person who values human life more than me. I find it biz

Yeah. The guy who explicitly stated people who are too old to have children aren't worth saving is the person who values human life more than me. I find it bizarre that I'm being accused of cultlike thinking by someone who has distilled humanity down to just reproducing. We're not single-celled organisms, man. We can aspire to things greater than just having kids. > So be it. The world always belonged to my children, and their children. I guess I should thank you for realizing yours were not fit to inherit it. Making a value judgment about theoretical children based on a few online interactions is such a deeply weird thing to do. This whole interaction is one of the strangest I've had on the internet in several decades of using it.

NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
> Yeah. The guy who explicitly stated people who are too old to have children aren't worth saving is the person who values human life more than me. It's difficult to explain counter-intuitiveness to the unclever. But yes. Overvaluing the geriatric to the exclusion of children and pro-procreation is equivalent to not valuing human life. It seems like some people should be able to get that, given how the old are so close to death, that it's about valuing death. > I find it bizarre that I'm being accused of cultlike thinking by Many cult members report similar sentiments if/when they are deprogrammed. From the inside, they're pretty sure they're the normal ones, and everyone else is weird. > We're not single-celled organisms, So some claim. They're sure, somehow, that they've transcended their biology. That, descending from an unending lineage nearly 4 billion years long, that they are the specific individual that all of that happened for, and things need not continue beyond them. But you're just an animal. > We can aspire to things greater than just having kids. You absolutely cannot. When you do this, you die having achieved little and having left no one to replace you on planet Earth to continue whatever work you thought so important that you skipped making children. All your works will, within two centuries or less, be for naught. > This whole interaction is one of the strangest I've had on the internet in several decades of using it. That tends to happen when you chance upon someone not promoting the status quo.

NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago

> Yeah. The guy who explicitly stated people who are too old to have children aren't worth saving is the person who values human life more than me. It's difficult to explain counter-intuitiveness to the unclever. But yes. Overvaluing the geriatric to the exclusion of children and pro-procreation is equivalent to not valuing human life. It seems like some people should be able to get that, given how the old are so close to death, that it's about valuing death. > I find it bizarre that I'm being accused of cultlike thinking by Many cult members report similar sentiments if/when they are deprogrammed. From the inside, they're pretty sure they're the normal ones, and everyone else is weird. > We're not single-celled organisms, So some claim. They're sure, somehow, that they've transcended their biology. That, descending from an unending lineage nearly 4 billion years long, that they are the specific individual that all of that happened for, and things need not continue beyond them. But you're just an animal. > We can aspire to things greater than just having kids. You absolutely cannot. When you do this, you die having achieved little and having left no one to replace you on planet Earth to continue whatever work you thought so important that you skipped making children. All your works will, within two centuries or less, be for naught. > This whole interaction is one of the strangest I've had on the internet in several decades of using it. That tends to happen when you chance upon someone not promoting the status quo.