roboshark

In my opinion, people have children because it helps them define a meaning to their existence. It's much more rewarding to have a job and raise some kids and watch them go and do glorious stuff. You look back on your life, and you're proud of having achieved something. Inherently, life has no meaning, no point. You were not born to working behind a desk for 40 years and then die. By having children, you feel that you transcend the futility of it all.

Of course, a lot of people just have kids withouth thinking about why or what. It's what you're supposed to do. Why question something as fundamental?

As to why bring a child into a cold, cruel, unforgiving world: people are optimists as a species. Nobody expects their child to starve or become a criminal or be run over by a truck or get lung cancer or blow their brains out with a revolver. You think about the good things that will happen to your children. It's human nature; otherwise we would not have made it this far as a species. (Whether this is a "good" thing or not is an entirely different discussion.)

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