No, I don't have children, never wanted
them, and never will. Of course, aging past the half century mark has
lowered the odds of that ever happening, although many other guys
much older than myself have shot their sperm into a younger more
fertile reproductive tract just to replicate.
Perhaps being forced by life to “grow
up” too fast and too soon had something to do with this, but the
fact is that I just can't stand children. When a bunch of screaming,
running brats are anywhere near me, I can't help but think that even
a pack of barking playing puppies are far less annoying and not even
nearly as potentially dangerous. Get some little snots in a
relatively unsupervised environment and someone's property or even
person is guaranteed to get damaged one way or the other.
Among other things that annoy the
living hell out of me about human nature is how those people who have
chosen to spawn offspring are under some sort of belief that they are
entitled to a higher position of privilege in society than those of
us who have chosen not to do so. These idiot breeders are somehow
self-absorbed in the belief that their offspring is divinely destined
to the inherit sole control of the universe.
There has been a completely unproven
premise presented by some folks that if the population rate turned
negative, there would be a shortage of the caretakers and innovators
of the future. I would present the opposite opinion. Education as
well as subsequent career fulfillment would actually be far less
competitive, and therefore we would have educated professionals who
are truly choosing their fields and not just settling for them.
Downsizing the human race would be the
smartest and most logical way to save the planet. The only truly
dangerous and destructive threat to Earth's well being seems to be
humanity itself. Its extinction would most probably be of utmost
benefit to the ecosystem, save for all of the shit it has already
created and would leave behind.
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