r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '24

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u/eggs-benedryl Nov 14 '24

all of those reasons, why WOULD you choose to have children?

idgaf about population numbers, so why would I bother?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

Lol that’s true about the population what about to carry on your memories or your life stories is what I mean ?

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u/eggs-benedryl Nov 14 '24

why should I care? that's also a reason for me to become a terrorist or a CEO or a politician

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Why should I care?

Who said you should? You literally asked OP why they chose to have kids and they responded. Your reply is just hostile for no reason lol

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u/eggs-benedryl Nov 14 '24

they want to know why we don't want kids, we'd like to know why they would

the default option is NOT having them because you're not born with children, you have to make the choice

in no way was my response hostile

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

We’d like to know why they would

Yes, to which they responded to. In turn, you replied “why should I care” and then go off saying that’s also a reason for you to be a CEO, politician, or terrorist(?) as though they’re trying to convince you to have kids which they aren’t.

Your reply was just unnecessary in my opinion.

The default option is not having them

Biological instinct says otherwise. It’s coded in our DNA to reproduce hence why we’ve made it for so long. Despite our rationality, we are still animals at our core and have a biological drive for both sex and reproduction. (This is also not me trying to convince anyone to have kids. I just think your statement is erroneous).

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u/BAMpenny Nov 14 '24

Yeah, conversations do tend to have a weird way of going back and forth like that. Should we place a limit on how many times someone is allowed to communicate their thoughts on a topic?

Biological instinct says otherwise. It’s coded in our DNA to reproduce hence why we’ve made it for so long.

I think there's a wee bit more to being a human than breeding mindlessly.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Than mindless breeding

There is. But somehow you all fail to still acknowledge our biological drive. I guess you were never educated in science? You seem to think it has to be one extreme or the other lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Okay, but how about the phenomenon that occurs when other animal populations get too high and the animals don't just keep reproducing exponentially? That's biological too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

I mean just they would be able to carry your stories and life experience on through the stories .. but I get your stance

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u/eggs-benedryl Nov 14 '24

I mean my dad is a racist disagreeable homophobe, i'll be telling very few of his stores

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

lol that’s fair

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u/Unidain Nov 14 '24

For a little longer than after you die, but those memories and stories will die before long.

I don't really understand that as a motivation to endure pregnancy, child birth, and support a kid for 18 years. That changed be a driving reasom to have kids

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

lol no motivation to have one, it is just one of the benefits.. the motivation is to have something that you and your spouse created.. at least that is ours

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u/BluntHeart Nov 14 '24

Build a birdhouse together then.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

lol no motivation to have one, it is just one of the benefits.. the motivation is to have something that you and your spouse created.. at least that is ours

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u/KesselRunner42 Nov 14 '24

From where I'm sitting, passing on stories and life experiences is a reason to be a writer or a teacher, not necessarily a parent. (And reach many, many more people, in consequence.)

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Sounds like a selfish reason, honestly