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Bye-bye baby (Childfree and Loving It)
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| February 26, 2006
| Julia Llewellyn Smith
Posted on 02/28/2006 1:23:15 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: bella1
Those who refuse to reproduce will be ruled by those who do. Its simple mathematics.
That is utterly ridiculous. Are you suggesting that my next-door neighbors who have children are eventually going to rule over my wife and me?
What you say may have some truth with respect to societies, but it does not apply if the individual level.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:40:11 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: Beelzebubba
Anyone who hypothesizes otherwise may start by explaining the ongoing existence of homosexuality throughout human existence.
Your right about one thing. Sin can not be bred out of humanity.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:40:39 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: linda_22003
1. Contraception is morally wrong and should not be practiced (obviously not something people generally agree on).
2. The Muslims are having the children we are not having, and will take over the world (therefore, have babies to kill and be killed).
3. Social Security would not be in trouble now if we'd had all of the babies that were aborted or otherwise prevented from being born (therefore, have babies to be indentured servants for our retirement). 1. I don't deign to spend much time addressing moonbattery.
2. As I noted in my previous message, this is a function of welfare statism, and can only be addressed by removing same.
3. The outcome of a Ponzi Scam (i.e. implosion) cannot be changed by fiddling with this parameter or that.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:41:31 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: Beelzebubba
Lots of the ladies who have had children have profound regrets about that choice.
Any woman who regrets having her children is truly monstrous, IMHO.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:41:58 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: beaversmom
I wish I could have a baby.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:42:16 AM PST
by
Flavius Josephus
(The only good muslim is a bad muslim)
To: Antoninus
106
posted on
02/28/2006 8:42:33 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
To: Campion
That's why we call it selfish. It is selfish; it's eating your economic seed corn today so you can get good and fat, never mind the fact that there will be nothing to plant in the spring and you will starve next winter.
A lot of grasshoppers on this thread....
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:42:50 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: iPod Shuffle
And if you don't have anyone to stick you in the nursing home when you need it? I'm reminded of the bumper sticker: "Be nice to your kids, they'll pick your nursing home."
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:43:32 AM PST
by
Flavius Josephus
(The only good muslim is a bad muslim)
To: Beelzebubba
Lots of the ladies who have had children have profound regrets about that choice. Why did they have profound regrets?
To: linda_22003
Naturally, if it wasn't what you had hoped for, you have a stronger motivation to answer a poll like that, so it's a self-selected group of responses, not a statistically valid one.
Uh, first of all, it's a poll of "Dear Abby" readers who were actually motivated enough to respond. That is the ultimate self-selected group. I knew at age 14 that Dear Abby was generally giving people pop-psych horrible advice, especially on relationships. Thus, this result is not surprising.
Take the same poll of Dr. Laura listeners and see what you get...
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:47:51 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: linda_22003
And we'll be paying for all of those services. :)
Perhaps. If you're a charity case, my kids may be ministering to you for free. I'll tell you in advance--they won't mind.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:48:55 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: Campion
"Comfortable" with your choice? Nope, not at all. Comfortable with mine? Absolutely, but more important that being "comforted," I know that what I'm doing is my duty to God and society.
Amen. Alleluia!
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:50:08 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: Wormwood
No offense, but of the many reasons I can imagine to reproduce, out-breeding Muslims is hardly one of them.While this is true, I'd say the important thing is to shed the mindset of overpopulation that was drilled into all of us as children by the left.
One thing I'm starting to think, and this is controversial, is that all the birth control they're trying to force on the poor in Africa may be contributing to the poverty. The death cultists see nothing but more mouths to feed. History demonstrates that along with the mouths come little hands and feet to help produce more food.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:50:44 AM PST
by
Flavius Josephus
(The only good muslim is a bad muslim)
To: Beelzebubba
When they go to the voting booth, yes, absolutely. The best you can hope for is that you agree with them. If not, oh well, you lose.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:51:23 AM PST
by
bella1
To: beaversmom
"Ooh, it's not fair, you are going on holiday next week, we have to go in the school holidays,"' says Jemma North. 'He doesn't seem to appreciate that it's not a question of fairness, that I made a decision to live like this.' Sounds like a typical DUmmie ("It's not fair that the guy who studied while I was out partying makes twice as much money as me...".)
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:51:29 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: steve-b
Easy enough to correct by taking away the various government give-away rewards for breeding.
Why take them away? Without families having children, there is no society.
You'll notice that your atheist friends in Europe and Japan are falling all over themselves to give financial incentives for people to "breed." In France, you can get a $30,000 stipend for having a child. Why do you suppose that is?
The answer is simple. The European governments have accepted the atheist/marxist dogma that people are mainly motivated by financial/economic incentives. In the case of their atheistic populations, that's most likely pretty close to the truth.
I'll tell you straight out--even if the government took away all the "incentives" for us to have kids, we'd still do it. Right now, I have a major financial incentive to send my kids to public school. I'd never do it in a hundred years. Care to guess why?
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:55:15 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: antaresequity
If that were true...how do you explain homosexuals?
You can't breed out sin.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:56:33 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: Antoninus
Why take them away? Because they, like all other types of theft, are immoral in themselves, and because they have pernicious social effects in encouraging people to breed before they have developed the prerequisites of personal responsibility and support.
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posted on
02/28/2006 9:00:05 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: steve-b
Because they, like all other types of theft, are immoral in themselves, and because they have pernicious social effects in encouraging people to breed before they have developed the prerequisites of personal responsibility and support.
For the record, I do not support the income tax and I agree that at its base, payroll withholding is not far from outright theft. If you want to work on changing us over to a NRST system, I'm happy to help.
But even if taxes were collected in a more morally sound manner, I'd still support exemptions for families with children.
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posted on
02/28/2006 9:03:46 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
To: Antoninus
You're repeating exactly what I said in order to disagree with me? How odd.
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