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Originally Posted by analog
None of this is aimed at soma or anyone else in particular.
That is a seriously bad ideal to have. THE most fulfilling thing someone can do with their life? No way, not even close. Anyone can bump uglies and grow a fetus- how about making positive change for people? Helping others? Teaching? Healing? Counseling? I could go on.
I think it's a hilarious tragedy that people think making a child (something any male and female with working genitals have been able to do for the entirety of our existence) is the most fulfilling thing they can do, when there are people out there living- and dying- homeless and starving, many of them children. There are tons of children up for adoption, who deserve a fair chance at a good life- and that's not just raising a child like you would your own... that's making a difference.
[breeder mocking] "Oh look at me, I can make a baby, that makes me like God or something, this is the best thing a person can do!" [/breeder mocking]
Pfft.
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I don't think you understand what you're talking about on this particular issue. You think that helping, teaching, counseling are all things more meaningful and worthwhile than having kids, which is funny, because if you had kids, or were even remotely able to understand what having kids is about, you would see that having kids can be all about helping, teaching, counseling and more.
Your post amounts to you lamenting the fact that people are so naive in believing a particular thing to be meaningful while suggesting multiple other things that you naively think are meaningful.
The fact of the matter is that different people find meaning in different things, and until you've put in your time doing something you just don't know whether it will be good for you. In this respect i understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately you're not consistent. In your book it's bad to idealize childrearing but not teaching. That doesn't make sense. Why should one expect teaching to be more fulfilling that raising a kid? Why should one expect teaching to be more fulfilling than taking a crap? Why shouldn't one expect teaching to be a dreary exercise in facilitating rote memorization?