Good reasons for having kids

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  1. francois Schwat? Registered Senior Member

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    Do you think people have kids for good reasons? By that, I mean, do they have kids for unselfish reasons?

    I think they rarely ever do, especially these days. They do it because they enjoy sex and bam! That's a baby. In fact, that's why I'm here. I was watching that awful movie Juno a few weeks ago and I was struck by that scene in the mall where Jennifer Garner's character is absolutely baby crazy and talking to Juno's developing fetus. I was struck by her selfishness. "Me, me, me! I want a baby!" That's one of the things I hated about that movie. Everybody in it was a selfish hedonist, just like parents are in real life. Do people ever have kids for unselfish reasons?
     
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  3. EmmZ It's an animal thing Registered Senior Member

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    Pour moi, kids are a bi-product of sex. Like a shit but more long term commitment.
     
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  5. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    I don't think people do anything at all for unselfish reasons. You only do things because of how they affect you personally. I think that it is an illusion that makes us think that we actually do things unselfishly. We are all selfish. Not that there is anything wrong with that I just think that's the way it is.
     
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  7. EmmZ It's an animal thing Registered Senior Member

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    You opened your post with "I don't think people do anything for unselfish reasons..." then concluded with " We are all selfish..." Forgive me if this this seems contradictory.
     
  8. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    No I don't think so. I used a double negative in the first sentence so that was bad grammer on my part, but they both mean the same thing don't they.
     
  9. Varda The Bug Lady Valued Senior Member

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    I'm going to educate my children, and they'll have children and educate them and grandchildren and we're going to out number all of the scum and in a couple of hundreds of years everything will be different
     
  10. Bells Staff Member

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    They make good footstools and terrific little slaves.

    Mother: "You.. first child.. get me the remote"..

    First child: "Yes Mummy"..

    Side table's a bit tricky. Haven't trained them to stand still long enough yet.:bawl:
     
  11. draqon Banned Banned

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    "Dad...I love you" :bawl: :bawl:

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  12. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    What other reason would there be to have sbildren other than for selfish fulfillment???

    I'm going to have a kid someday and educate him and train him to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!
     
  13. Kadark Banned Banned

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    I hear they're delicious.
     
  14. draqon Banned Banned

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    is love a selfish fulfillment?
     
  15. draqon Banned Banned

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    I thought you taste that which is delicious, not hear

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  16. Kadark Banned Banned

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    I used the word correctly, dimwit. Read it again.
     
  17. draqon Banned Banned

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    anyways...kids are not food.
     
  18. Kadark Banned Banned

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    They're not? Somebody should have told me this before I had dinner.
     
  19. draqon Banned Banned

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    So you lied than...since you said you heard

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  20. Varda The Bug Lady Valued Senior Member

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    sorry but my world domination program is already in course
    you are not going to have it easy
     
  21. Kadark Banned Banned

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    draqon,

    You're a keen little bastard. Good observation, I will admit.
     
  22. Varda The Bug Lady Valued Senior Member

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    i don't think my parents were selfish to have me and love me and then devote their entire lives to giving me all of the best they could give
     
  23. EmmZ It's an animal thing Registered Senior Member

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    I want children to fulfill my altruist wish of betterment of humanity [uuuuum, tries to find the squibbley faced icon]
     

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