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Originally Posted by highthief
The basic desire to spread one's genetic seed far and wide?
We've got one child and came to the conclusion that we'd like another - as much for our daughter as for anything else. My brothers don't and won't have kids, her brother has one and that's probably it, and we're both the youngest in our families. Our daughter won't have much family around in another generation and that's, IMO, a rotten place to be.
So, lots of sex right now!
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Too bad I can see beyond my hot throbbing genetic desires to the fact that my genes aren't all that special.
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Humans: A general disease to planet Earth with horrible impulse control.
SEE: Afghan birth rate 2000 to 2008.
SEE: Education level as birth control.
SEE: Africa and Feed-Another-Useless-Extra hotlines.
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Why not just keep it at the number of kids you already have (or stick with one) and use the additional time and money and effort to make sure that one kid has a happy, well-rounded childhood (cubscouts, travel, big wheel, learns languages) and gets a top notch education (college) instead of having X+ kids and living on Ramen and cheap DVDs to keep them occupied?
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Just because you can reproduce doesn't mean you should. Gah, the idea really makes me shiver with disgust.
SEE: White Trash Revelation:
Why we should regulate crotches, not firearms and automobiles.
SEE: Idiocracy (Mike Judge movie from a few years back)