Free will.
I know. Heavy.
Procreation and nihilism.
What am I talking about?
Free choice and judgment.
Commentator, look at the window and enjoy this pill. You're over stressed.
We "know" people close to us who are young, healthy and modestly comfortable who willingly choose to not have children; or as we say in the business, procreate.
The reasons given are rational (economic, time, potential sickness etc.) enough. It may teeter, to some, on mere excuses, but why judge another's decision?
Is choosing (presumably of free choice and will) not to procreate under the auspices of rational thought a form of nihilism? Is it skirting your responsbility as a human? That is, we apply a "we'll still survive. What am I going to change?" Indeed, Africa and Asia more than bring up birth rates picking up the slack from the West who have chosen to shrink the family of which I'm a part of with one child in my clan.
If there's one universal law observed by all cultures and religions it's procreation. After all, no noogie-woogie no species.
I suppose I'm insinuating not procreating is a law that's not up for discussion.
But being the wretched, thinking creatures we are, it is up for discussion. People will argue for the most useless of things so why not the issue of procreation?
Just throwing it out there.
Oh boy (or should I say "no boys or girls"), is there ever gonna be a discussion. Interesting you should post this (what have you been reading lately?) because I'm going to have a series of posts on this very topic over at SE (your guest contributions maybe?). It could get wild (people don't like the very morality of choosing parenthood questioned) because, you see, I not only defend the decision to NOT have children, but attack the whole idea of procreation and imposing life on someone by having a baby.
ReplyDeleteI am an unofficial member of the voluntary human extinction movement and shake my fist and the whole rotten life process that no one asked for (or as Henry Miller put it "Someone should put a bomb up the asshole of creation", which just means, to me, we'd be better off never having been.
By the way, I'm not a nihilist, nor does having such opinions (actually, truths, but I'll pretend it's all up for "discussion") as mine on procreation make one one.
Is choosing (presumably of free choice and will) not to procreate under the auspices of rational thought a form of nihilism?
No, and any attempting to put a guilt trip on anyone regarding such a choice is BS.
Is it skirting your responsibility as a human?
My only "responsibility" as a human, if there is one, is not harming others (except in self-defense), which, ironically, having children does, as you've then imposed the burden and struggles of life on someone.
Breeders are the irresponsible and immoral ones!
It should be a main topic for the 2012 election.
ReplyDeleteYeah, not into the imposing thing either. People believe what they believe.
Here's another potentially messy question: If you know your fetus/child has a mental defect do you keep it as faith and God commands or do you abort?