Letters to the Editor
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Is this why some animals eat their young?
I can see the animal now, looking at their offspring, thinking "Geez, it's going to be pretty hard fighting against other alligators in the swamp to survive...I guess I better just eat them before anybody else gets a chance to..."
Yeah, sounds stupid, doesn't it LW? Well, we aren't that far removed from the animal kingdom as well...no child is going to be able to articulate this existential dilemma until they are MUCH older...and by that point, if life is that goddamn crappy, they can just snuff themselves out. Unless you and your spouse are genetically predisposed to have bi-polar offspring, this isn't really going to be an issue. The fact that you worry about THAT and not about whether you can afford to put the kid on someone's health insurance plan means you need to get yo' shit straight before pumping kids out.
Although I would greatly encourage adoption as an alternative for anyone not willing to bring another living person into this fucked-up world, your existential "footprint" issues go way beyond the practical realm here...I somehow suspect that the adoption process would weed you out as well.
So...stop worrying so damn much...when you cross that threshold, then you can start thinking about breeding...