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Arcanine2009 posted...

She doesn't want kids.. Damn it's getting so common these days for women to not want kids.

Men as well. It's perfectly admirable. Society is starting to realize that for many people, producing offspring is a desperate attempt by people to pass on their genetic legacy before they die.

My parents once told me that the one thing that they care most about is for me to find a wife and bear children and to be able to raise that family, otherwise, they'll just donate all of their property to charity upon their deaths. I asked them, what about adoption? They said no. They won't have the family DNA/blood.

I will be honest, I love him, but I lost a ton of respect for my father when he said that. I honestly believe that's a very depressing and selfish way to go through life. I realize that it's our biological instinct to have a visceral reaction towards wanting to prolong your genetic existence through history, but to let that define your entire existence on earth, is very sad to me.

The nature of our human existence is that we recognize our biological instincts, and determine whether we want to be driven by them, or choose a more ethical path.