Is Being Childfree Selfish? Debating Time Magazine's Touchy New Issue
Posted 08-04-2013 at 08:20 PM by bev osborn
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Originally Posted by StabbyAbby
It's "selfish" because the childfree individual is putting their own wants and needs above their "tribe"'s need to perpetuate, expand and dominate.
The government wants more soldiers and taxpayers.
Corporations need more cheap labor and consumers.
Organized religion wants more followers.
The government wants more soldiers and taxpayers.
Corporations need more cheap labor and consumers.
Organized religion wants more followers.
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Think you have about the right take on it. I have 3 children and 2 of them have brought me real joy and will probably be willing and able to help me if I live too long. The other; on the other hand, is just the opposite.
But, no surely we do not have a duty to populate an army, nor a factory are for that matter a church.
The fundamentalist churches that I grew up in, teach that about 95% of all people born will end up in hell anyway, so there's not much future in that.Posted 08-05-2013 at 11:09 AM by Fortoggie
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wow 95%?!!
To me that is very scary to have to grow up hearing that-went to some "holy roller" churches down in Dixie that talked hell-fire and damnation--really scared me off religion for a very long time-I was 7 years old and crying myself to sleep because I was gonna burn in hell--is this considered child abuse,I wonder?Posted 08-05-2013 at 02:23 PM by bev osborn
