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post 1568181421 12-09-2018, 03:07 AM
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian
I'd do almost anything to have kids with a woman I loved. I'd even raise another guy's child, and I swore I'd never, ever, do that. But, I now love children and family probably more than others because I have none.
I know the misc lol about raising Chad's kid, and all that...

But there's no value in the biological aspect of having a kid that's biologically yours vs one that isn't.

I think people place irrational value on the value of having kids overall, I think people feel peer pressured into it largely, be that consciously or unconsciously.

Two reasons a person may decide to have kids -

#1. Social reasons, their friends have kids, they wanna start a family, etc...
#2. To pass on their genes

The former is fine, if you want to have kids, if you believe they will make your life happier and your partners life happier, go for it.

The latter is a ridiculous reason. Why would someone want kids simply to pass on their genes? To what end? How does that do anything of worthwhile value? It's not like having kids does anything to increase your life span, you die and it's game over. "Oh, but my genes live on"... so? There's literally no value there to the passer of the genes, and even if there were value in passing down your genes, which there isn't. Those genes will get watered down in a few generations, and your input will be irrelevant. And even if your input was relevant, whatever that means... what does it matter, why does it matter?

I think people have kids for wrong reasons, and reasons that revolve around mental weakness... having kids because they feel pressured to, which is a mental weakness.

It makes entire sense to me why a large percentage of smarter people, relative to not so smart people have fewer kids.

It may be the case that intelligence is a bad thing for evolution. To which you'll think "Fuk it's bad for evolution, therefore intelligent people should have kids."... still no, intelligent people likely don't care about "the goal of evolution", not that evolution is an entity, but you get the point.

Simply put, intelligent people do what they want, so do not so intelligent people. The difference is what their wants are.
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post 1568181721 12-09-2018, 03:18 AM
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Not having kids.
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post 1568181791 12-09-2018, 03:20 AM
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Educated women are more feminist ergo educated people have less children. Men may have to settle with finding some dumb bimbo to knock up.
post 1568182051 12-09-2018, 03:38 AM
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theres a lot more nuance than just smarter people dont have kids. they wouldnt exist if only that was the case.
post 1568186651 12-09-2018, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted By dizzin9
Smart people checking in
This.

lol @ having kids anymore.
post 1568234901 12-09-2018, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted By FailedPotential
I know the misc lol about raising Chad's kid, and all that...

But there's no value in the biological aspect of having a kid that's biologically yours vs one that isn't.

I think people place irrational value on the value of having kids overall, I think people feel peer pressured into it largely, be that consciously or unconsciously.

Two reasons a person may decide to have kids -

#1. Social reasons, their friends have kids, they wanna start a family, etc...
#2. To pass on their genes
Wow!

How old are you?

Do you love your family, your mom?

All of my family had blue eyes. When I meet someone with blue eyes, I'm happy.

Never had a girl with blue eyes for some weird reason, but that would make me love her more.

My ex couldn't have kids. She has a niece that looks just like her. It's like a miracle.

It's amazing to see people who are your family and they look like it. I guess if you don't care about your family or come from and ethnic group where everyone are clones, then it wouldn't matter.

I no longer NEED that and most kids really like me, so I'd be happy, as long as I loved the woman, but I'd be super happy with my own kid.
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post 1568235421 12-09-2018, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted By AndroidKami
The next step in what smart people will do is suicide.
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post 1568236121 12-09-2018, 07:07 PM
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High IQ, educated, well paid with family. Fighting the good fight to keep the gene pool on the up and up.
post 1568237841 12-09-2018, 07:25 PM
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Smart people understand the tremendous financial and long-term responsibility that they will incur upon having a child and raising it to the best of their abilities. So rather than having children, they hand over half of their income, and much of their time, towards people who have children with little concern for the children’s care and well being.

This, of course, is a model bound to fail.
post 1568238591 12-09-2018, 07:35 PM
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post 1568239111 12-09-2018, 07:44 PM
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Now if only the dumb/poor fukers would stop having kids as well
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post 1568240121 12-09-2018, 07:58 PM
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I'm in that age range and will not have kids. I wouldn't want my children raised around the current world which is devoid of moral principals.
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post 1568272691 12-10-2018, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted By lebowski951
I think the biggest detriment to the modern family is the state. The state essentially has the authority to replace the father of any family at their own discretion. Not that you're exonerated financially of course, you will still have to pay what they demand of you regardless of your financial situation.

It is simply too dangerous to have a family unless you are 100% certain you've found the right woman. Even then, society has conditioned women to seek a divorce at even the slightest inconvenience and just have you pay for them and the kids until the kids are of legal age.

If the government just stayed out of families lives then we'd probably see a healthy increase in birth rates.
I agree with this, but I think you have it backwards.

There's no such thing as "the state" because it's a revolving door of new people coming and going. I believe it's driven by the psychology of people.

Anyway, I work with criminals and have noticed a huge change in women since I was a kid. When I was a kid women would get angry at a guy and call their dad, brother, etc to talk to the guy. Now, they call the cops if they're angry at a guy, make stuff up, file charges, and get PFAs against men who made them angry.

Daily, I meet guys who did nothing and get serious charges filed against them, and will spend time in jail, only to have the charges dropped by the woman. Nothing happens to the women. The guys being "in love" will do nothing and go back to the woman, mostly, and so it's like a giant family argument with the woman pulling the government into the situation like a standin dad.

I believe the media, in the 70s and 80s, had a plot to destroy families by promoting a negative type of feminism. That then created an increased demand for government to take over the role of family.

If you look at the black community in the US, it's pretty clear. The psychology of that is that black families got destroyed by slavery. Women hated the men for not protecting them, that made women chase away men, and caused families to disappear. So, all food, healthcare, housing, etc is provided by the government.

The above is official stuff I've read about the psychology of minorities, not something I made up.
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post 1568272921 12-10-2018, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted By JT11RTR
I'm in that age range and will not have kids. I wouldn't want my children raised around the current world which is devoid of moral principals.
I used to think that way.

Many humans are degenerates and just take a look back at Roman times. However, there's always good people and that will continue.

The media pushes depression and I don't know if it's a plot to demoralize people or just because it's run by perverts, but it affected me and made me not want a family and kids.

Don't let that happen to you.
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post 1568273221 12-10-2018, 09:06 AM
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Imagine living on a planet already overpopulated and thinking that the world could use more traffic or more lines
post 1568273311 12-10-2018, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted By gibbypoo
Imagine living on a planet already overpopulated and thinking that the world could use more traffic or more lines
planet being overpopulated is the biggest myth ever
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post 1568273731 12-10-2018, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted By ERTW22
This isn't really a new thing, it's probably happened all throughout history.
The quality of human stock has been decreasing ever since pre-historic times, the ancients were our superiors in every way. But now the decline is accelerating at a great pace because of modern medicine, technology and dysgenic welfare states.
post 1568273941 12-10-2018, 09:15 AM
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Every time I watch Locked UP and they say how many kids they have, I cringe so hard. "I'm 25 never had a job, I raped and murdered a girl but I miss mah 8 kids."
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post 1568275011 12-10-2018, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted By VTheKing
that's been the trend pretty much since advances in hygiene, medicine and food production dramatically reduced child mortality across the board, so that being poor and/or uneducated didn't mean losing every other child you had. high rates of urbanization also made it so having kids became a cash sink and a drag career-wise, instead of having more hands for your farm or tradie business. then with women mostly catching up with men's labor force participation rates, raising kids is more or less a professional business you pay for nowadays.

I mean, we can't collectively bitch about it as Miscers when most people here are on that no kids no marriage time.
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I mean....I consider myself fairly intelligent. I don't have the greatest job or make the most money, but my son wants for nothing, and I'm still happy in my decision to have him, even if my marriage didn't work out. I don't want more children, I'm good with just one because I want to be able to provide him the best possible life within my means.
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this is sad
post 1568278711 12-10-2018, 10:16 AM
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Being smart isn't the reason miscers aren't having kids

Nice try OP
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Intelligence isnt a factor of genetics. My mom dropped out of school at 11, dad dropped out at 14. Theyre from a poor country in Europe and came to america in their twenties. Now my two older brothers are engineers and so am I.
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Can confirm. I’m 33, been with my woman for 13 years, she is 28. Household income $150k last year, have a 1,600 sqft new build house, both in stable careers with strong future prospects. Both of our credit scores are 820+, both graduated college, no bad debt, etc etc


Still don’t have kids
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Originally Posted By juvefan
Intelligence isnt a factor of genetics. My mom dropped out of school at 11, dad dropped out at 14. Theyre from a poor country in Europe and came to america in their twenties. Now my two older brothers are engineers and so am I.
imagine doing that today people don't have the same options they had back then try doing that right now see how you'll end up.
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Originally Posted By Silencespeaks
Idk about other people but I don’t want any. It’s a lot of work and a lot of responsibility and a lot of risk, so you have to be really ready for that and really want them for it to be worth it.
You still have the option? Damn you got hella eggs.
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So because young people in the "dating world" that have well paying jobs don't have kids that means smart people aren't having them?
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We sure aren't
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A lot of people have realized kids are too risky to have - mostly men. It's a chain of bondage to a woman who will most likely rake you over the coals for child support.
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Originally Posted By Destor
Can confirm. I’m 33, been with my woman for 13 years, she is 28. Household income $150k last year, have a 1,600 sqft new build house, both in stable careers with strong future prospects. Both of our credit scores are 820+, both graduated college, no bad debt, etc etc


Still don’t have kids
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