Reply #53: You're a eugenicist

[JAbuchan08]

Who gets to determine which parents are "entitled" to have children? I think we are all outraged by Nadya Suleman and others whose reproduction outstrips their own resources, not to mention the planet's, but I also get annoyed at the well-heeled mothers and fathers who feel they are entitled to reproduce. They are almost as disgusting as Nadya Suleman, but instead of getting their self-actualization from the sheer number of children they produce they recieve it from their ability to "customize" their child and turn them into a little version of themselves: entitled consumeristic brats.

So yeah, it offends me when people say things like, "it's not the number of children it's who has them." No, it's the number of children, and I'm not going to excuse the well-heeled as they have done just as much as anyone to turn the act of reproduction into a consumeristic system. Nadya Suleman may be the most extreme example of our consumeristic culture of feel-good babymaking, but she's just on that path she didn't build the road.

I sometimes think that I would like to have a child, but I realize that it is a selfish instinct and is in no way a neccessity. More people should be aware of this instead of reproducing children as if we are running out.