The best argument for having children
might be that they ask more interesting questions than most adults a lot of the time. Like a young child asking me where the edge of the universe is located. I asked him if he was hungry for maybe the twelfth time that day.
Instead of making food he didn't want I made up a thrilling tale about the precise location of the edge of the universe, gave him a number of half bad metaphysical answers and asked someone with an engineers degree if he could please help with an explanation involving physics and mathematics. The child ate afterwards.
I should maybe ask myself why constant updates about stomach content and hunger was so important that I didn't even think about edges or the universe.
Instead of making food he didn't want I made up a thrilling tale about the precise location of the edge of the universe, gave him a number of half bad metaphysical answers and asked someone with an engineers degree if he could please help with an explanation involving physics and mathematics. The child ate afterwards.
I should maybe ask myself why constant updates about stomach content and hunger was so important that I didn't even think about edges or the universe.
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We should probably have children or not have children for many different reasons. Many people get to see their actions and lives in a different light when they have children or work with them. With better scientific proof of how children should be raised newer generations might get a better chance of doing better by each other than older generations did.
For the child there is warmth and caring and sometimes answers if their family is wise enough. Friends if they are lucky to find someone who loves the same type of questions or games or talks or toys and so on. Of course being born means nothing to the unborn if there is no soul and being born is not considered a gift by so many because life can be cruel, unwelcoming and lonely.
It depends I think.
I agree. But in the spirit of Idiocracy, some people have kids very late because of reasoning. People have a lot less children these days because they can choose not to.
Quoting PulsarDK
Perhaps you are obsessive compulsive. Then there is the child's fascination with cement mixers or edges of the universe. How old is this kid? I think I was old enough to drink when I first wondered about those pesky edges of the universe. Has your child been drinking?
I don't know whether children are any 'wiser' today than they were in the Roman Empire, say, or the Neolithic Age. What is different about children in the last 50 years, anyway, is that they are subjected to a deluge of information that they were not before media saturated culture. I'm not criticizing media here -- I've enjoyed the deluge (NOVA, National Geographic, Netflix, Internet, etc.). Had I a child he or she would have seen a lot more science and BBC drama than I did back in the 1950s.
Unfortunately, and I'll criticize media now, the deluge of information on the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio has been accompanied by a lot of garbage on the other channels. So some children will ask about the edge of the universe, others will not.
And then they become those "most adults". What a pity, what a waste.
That your children are likely to have a good life and/or you are going to bring them up to make the world a better place.
The only problem I have with this is that your children could have children, that have children, that have children, et cetera. You can't expect all of these future generations to have a good life, and some may have horrific lives. And as far as making the world a better place, the evidence shows introducing generations more people to be doing exactly the opposite.
I don't know about "most of the time." My decision to have kids was pretty deliberate. If it was based upon sex just feeling good, I'd have had far more than just 2.
Agreed! Evil is subtlety taken to stratospheric heights. You won't see it until it's too late.
Agreed :up:
To be honest I guess that kid asked “where the edge is located” so randomly without any base. Probably the child saw it in TV or a book previously. It is not innate making those such of questions because we need some knowledge and culture to do so.
Kids can make these questions about “physics” or “mathematics” because they are stubborn questioning literally everything.
This is exactly an argument which develops exactly the opposite from the OP: not having kids
You deserve an award for this, you know. All I can offer you is a :up: and :clap:
Quoting TheHedoMinimalist
Quoting TheHedoMinimalist
In the educational setting in which I grew up, children were not taught how to learn and teachers were not taught how to teach. It's a miracle that we learned anything at all.
Well, thanks :)
Teach your kid to see his own mind as the cause of everything good or bad in his life.
No. I will never teach any kid that. Teaching a kid that narcissistic type of crap will destroy lives. Like Trump's positive thinking.
Self reflection and self responsibility are the opposite of narcissism.
Many men will put in deliberate effort now to avoid having children due to the tyranny of child support laws. Which isn't really an avoidance of children but an avoidance of tyranny.
It would seem closer to tyranny if I was forced to support somebody else's children having no connection to me.
Kids from an actual decision to make them is different, but even then, if one parent takes the kids and cuts the other out of the kid's life, then the funding should also be cut off.