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"I hope you don't have kids" is, as far as I can see, very nearly the worst thing you can say to someone, if you mean it seriously. So far, everyone dies, but
by randallsquared 17y ago
"I hope you don't have kids" is, as far as I can see, very nearly the worst thing you can say to someone, if you mean it seriously. So far, everyone dies, but at least there's a chance that part of them will live on through their children; saying you'd prefer that they never have any legacy is even worse than flatly wishing they'd die.
- silentbicycle 17y agoYou can have a legacy without having kids.
- randallsquared 17y agoThat's true, you can. How many adults of 100 years ago have a legacy today without considering their kids? A few million? How many of 1000 years ago? Thousands, at most? Kids are more reliable than making the history books or being involved in building or monument that happens to stand for a while.
- mahmud 17y ago"I hope you don't have kids" could have two completely different meanings: 1) I hope you're not a parent at the moment. and 2) I hope you never conceive! The first is a lament over the fate of any children that the addressed might have parented. The later is wishing ill fate upon the addressed.
- randallsquared 17y agocould have two completely different meanings Ah, I actually had missed the sense in which yardie might have meant "I hope you don't already have kids", and they've actually said that that's how it was meant (approximately), so I was a bit out of line, above.
- yardie 17y agoIt was meant in the sense that if he/she is a parent at the moment than he is a poor one. I would never tell someone not to have kids, it would be hypocritical on my part.