why do people have children? goddamn!

aite ima get a lil ranty hea':

-so they can keep up with the joneses. you're not anyone unless you've got the perfect spouse and children.

-for selfish reasons: the novelty of a mini-me, continuing bloodlines, a safety net when you're a geriatric

-to bestow the world with the next einstein or newton (though the odds of that are low)

is anyone else sick of hearing people patting themselves on their backs for having children? as if it's some kind of contribution to society? it's very annoying to hear people complain about how hard parenthood is. if they can't handle it, they should not have had em in the first place! personally, i don't care at all if anonymous #123 shits out another human being.

obviously this isnt directed to any 4chaners since having children would require some kind of copulation. so here's a more relevant topic: do you feel obliged to do whatever your parents say because they gave you the gift of life?

I don't think that the desire to procreate is contemptible.  Quite the opposite: if one or two generations just up and decided not to have kids we'd be fucked.

However, many people are out there having kids who aren't the least bit capable of it.  But it's hard to assess that kind of judgment on others: my parents were both general fuck ups, but they pulled it together in their late 30's and raised me and now I'm working on my PhD in mathematics.

On the other hand kids fucking suck.  Most of them 15-20 just need to get their heads bashed up against a wall. srsly. There are times when I'm in front of my class and a kid asks some retarded question and I start to think: ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!?!

so yeah, fuck kids.