User blog comment:Keplers/An Important Question/@comment-5111283-20151208210041/@comment-5111283-20151209213903

I'm inclined to agree to disagree 9 times out of 10, but, I don't really want to get into a debate over it. :P If you'd like I'll gladly discussing in the confines of a PM though. :P Although... :P

I would like to say one thing though. Regardless of whether your religious, an atheist, believe in an afterlife, or not. I fail to see how the one thing that actually 100% will last after you're gone and can have an impact, children, are so looked down upon by people as being too much of a burden, too much of an expense. And rather than investing in the future of society, and their legacy, they live to please themselves for their meager ~80 years here. If good people have kids that they teach to be good people themselves that would be a betterment to society, if those people could pass down to another generation their mistakes and life lessons, it could make the next generation wiser and able to avoid the mistakes of the previous generation.

I don't know, it just seems like if someone looks at the forest instead of the trees to see the bigger picture they could see all the good things to come out of children. And I'm not saying everyone should have ten kids; 2.1 per couple is all that's needed to maintain a stable population anyhow. And, yes, I know that there are valid reasons some people choose not to have children, and I respect that, but it just kinda irks me how societies become so wrapped up in self-interest and pursuit of self-gratification they loose sight of the future, and ultimately doom their own society. Like what happened to the Romans and their culture/empire.

Just my $0.02.