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"Idiots breed like rabbits" is rather insulting. But yes, number of children coordinates with higher socioeconomic class. Generally, higher SES couples have fewer children.
In this crowded world it makes sense for people in general to have an average 2 children per couple. That would tend towards a constant population, a goal that many of us consider good. Many problems that mankind faces are related to the size of the population.
I think we have quite enough people on this planet.
I'm 23 years old, been single for 5 years and from the looks of things, It's gonna be that way until I die. Don't get me wrong I don't hate women even though my experiences with them haven't been good. I always hear this saying "Man wasn't meant to be alone." I feel that I'm meant to be alone in this life. I don't believe there is a woman out there for me at all, it doesn't make me sad I just accept it. I've never even approached a woman or asked one out, It's scary so I don't try. I will not have a girlfriend, will never have sex, will not get married, and will never had kids (I had a vascetomy already). Are some men just meant to be alone?
First, I believe the saying is, “A man is not complete until he gets married. Then he’s finished.”
Well, you helped fulfill your prophetic goal by limited you having kids by getting snipped.
You have one left. Get rid of the attitude and make it happen.
Pay for the hot girls meal behind you in the drive thru.
Strike up a conversation with everyone you find attractive.
Intelligent people, similar to beautiful people, don't need to declare this, as it is evidenced by those around them.
If one is very intelligent and decides the world shall be populated with idiots, because they are too smart to contribute to the quality of mankind and the generations to come, this is not proof of high IQ, but of low EQ.
Some people are happy to be alone, those who aren't don't have the EQ to do anything about it.
My own mother has said more than once “you may be just too damn smart to want to have children.” When you get beyond face value, it would make sense that a highly educated and highly analytical type like myself could never get beyond the opportunity cost and the time and financial investment of parenting to actually want to do it.
How can you look at tiny brand new human being and start calculating opportunity costs?
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How can you look at tiny brand new human being and start calculating opportunity costs?
When I have to think about how I’m going to feed, educate, clothe, and protect that tiny human being and what I’m going have to give up to do it. That’s how.
How can you look at tiny brand new human being and start calculating opportunity costs?
It's called reality. If more people considered it before breeding, they'd rip the batteries out of their biological clocks and throw them away.
Whatever benefits a spouse may bring, they also have the potential to complicate life as much as they (supposedly) enrich it. Children do the same only more so. That's reason enough for this little black duck to keep well away from either possibility.
I do like kids, but I could never eat a whole one.
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