[ SECRET POST #2230 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2230 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Early because blizzard, not quite sure if power will last.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Someone to take care of you when you're older

Uh, that makes it more selfish, not less. Or at least, more pragmatically selfish. Self-motivated. Dammit, I've lost the word. Self-serving? It means people aren't just having kids for shits and giggles, but if you're doing it to have someone to take care of you when you're older, that is not at all selfless.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, that was referring directly to this statement:

"but it's even worse now because there's no practical benefit to having a child - the only thing it does is make the parent feel good about themselves."

My point is that there are, actually. Not that I think they're good reasons, but there are.

[diet_poison]

In some times/places you had to have kids in order to keep up with the farm your family owned. It was labor, plain and simple.

Does that make it selfless? No. But there's an objectively practical side to it.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh...what?

The original anon said "There's no practical reasons for having kids anymore", and my response was "Yes there are, here's one". Another anon interpreted that as my defending parenthood by saying it's not selfish because you need them to take care of you when they're older (which is obviously selfish).

I'm not denying a certain practicality to having kids in the past, or present. :)

[diet_poison]

Oh, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I was agreeing with you and then adding on.

Sorry, I should have said so lol