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Personally, I don't know if I want kids, but I usually lean toward no for all the reasons mentioned above... cost, time, lack of sleep, lack of being seen as a person and instead just as 'mom' (okay, I added that last one).
Also as said above, everyone has the 'right' to reproduce, but I don't think everyone should... there are definitely ways in which forced sterility could benefit society. Someone up there basically said that perhaps upstanding citizens have the moral obligatin to reproduce so their offspring can support the next generation of degenerates... wouldn't the more logical sollution be to stop the degenerates from being born in the first place?
However, in this PCified western world, nothing like this would be allowed to happen... and in places where it does happen, like China, it's taken too far... which begs the questions of who would set the rules... who would determine which people were allowed to reproduce... etc.
Actually, the first post in this thread sounds to me more like someone trying to justify not having kids to themselves (most families, friends, etc... including mine... push people close to them to 'give me grandkids' or whatever). I definitely think no one who doesn't really want kids should have them... that's just not fair to the kids. I don't think not having kids needs any kind of justification.
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