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In reply to the discussion: Are Babies for Idiots? Maternal Urge Decreases in Women with Higher IQ [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)year and a half trying to appease them and screwing the rest of us in the process. For what purpose? Did he really believe that he would win some over if he just gave them enough?
The Reich Wing is going to call us snobs, elitists, and anything else their very limited imaginations and vocabulary can concoct or pronounce no matter what we do, so why bother considering them at all?
Also, consider that the single issue underlying all the human caused problems in the world today spring from the fact that there are way to many of us on this planet. Perhaps reconsidering tradition and sentimentality that's origins go back to a time when a family had to have a dozen kids so that at least one would make it to adulthood, isn't a bad thing.
I've lived a life impossible for all but the really rich that that chose to breed, and it's great. And that whole "who'll take care of you when you're old" canard is just so much hot air as well. I know, and I'm sure you do as well, so many people that did make the monumental sacrifice of having kids, only to be abandoned and broke in their old age. At least my way, I know that there's nobody to count on and wherever I end up, it will have been one hell of a ride getting there.