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If a single individual influences enough people to change, can't his actions offset more than his footprint? In that case, couldn't it actually be worthwhile to have kids?
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I think about this dilemma too because I see these gigantic families filled with what you know are going to be absolutely brainwashed children, and I know well that each one of them can and will vote. Most likely they will vote (not just in politics either, like I said what one consumes is also a vote) for things that perpetuate the lifestyle they were born into. Considering we really need cultural change to begin approaching all the nasty little problems we have, thinking about that really makes me want to either be a teacher or raise several children.
Raise is the key word here, Tas. I think that if extremely privileged westerners like ourselves feel the need to raise children, they should at least be adopted away from slavery or something. (Which by the way there are more of today than there was at the peak of American slave trade - slaves, I mean. Fun fact, eh?
). We feel so entitled to everything, including the spread of our own DNA, and I think we could all do better without that sentiment.