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Originally Posted by Gilda
It's both powerfully attractive and faulty reasoning to generalize from one's personal experience to everyone (a special case of the "if one, then all" fallacy). Having and rearing a child can be the most fulfilling thing a person can do. So can teaching, writing, sports, exploring other cultures, any of a dozen other things.
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Right, by this you mean an individual person- it may be the most fulfilling thing Jane Doe can do, not "anyone at all", because there are many other very fulfilling things. My issue is with the oft-made assertion that it is "the" most fulfilling thing
anyone can do (as in, it trumps all others).