Reply #48: But, tell me, if you will, Dr. Freud...

[chefgirl]

compensation for their worthless meaningless lives
that's often the primary motive for breeders. Not to mention a very selfish act.

... what is the primary motive for non breeders?

It never ceases to amaze me that on these 'baby' threads, the vast majority of replies are from those who have none, and therefore, cannot possibly construct an informed opinion.

Despite that fact, however, there is NEVER a shortage of comments like the one above or others such as:

7 billion soon)
just in time for the mass-extinction and monumental trashing of our one planet.. Hope the tots all appreciate the future their parents are giving them

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Some of it's simply a form of selfishness

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It's this sort of thing I truly can't grasp. Is this a form of achievement I don't understand?

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They're email is on the family's website. I wrote asking them if they could imagine the mountain their diapers have made.


Yeah, yeah, we get it.. us 'breeders'. WE, and our children, are the reason the planet is going to shit, right?? It must be a terrific responsibility, bearing the weight of all the annoying offspring of others, mucking up your otherwise Utopian world.

How naive and, dare I say, childish??

-chef-