it's a modest proposal. or not.
May. 22nd, 2007 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidennoted:motherhood issues*
i think about this sort of thing quite a bit, as the jury is still out on reproduction at my house. (watching my sister turn into some kind of Stepford mom just as we started to be friends has cranked back the biological clock a few turns.)
what it comes down to is that there is no way to talk about such ideas without people on both sides frothing at the mouth. childfree people are often virulently reactionary, while parenting advocates tend to moral superiority and smugness. i am reminded of the moment in Star Trek IV when Bones wants to talk with Spock about being dead, and Spock refuses because they have no common frame of reference - there is no way to have a dialog without the experience, once you have the experience there is no dialog.
no one would get funding for research to back it up anyway.
*posting a link to someone else's interesting post does not constitute an attack on parents. my friends are pretty good at it, i think mine did a good job, i think the human race needs to continue in a way that doesn't suck. i have no idea how y'all do it.
i think about this sort of thing quite a bit, as the jury is still out on reproduction at my house. (watching my sister turn into some kind of Stepford mom just as we started to be friends has cranked back the biological clock a few turns.)
what it comes down to is that there is no way to talk about such ideas without people on both sides frothing at the mouth. childfree people are often virulently reactionary, while parenting advocates tend to moral superiority and smugness. i am reminded of the moment in Star Trek IV when Bones wants to talk with Spock about being dead, and Spock refuses because they have no common frame of reference - there is no way to have a dialog without the experience, once you have the experience there is no dialog.
no one would get funding for research to back it up anyway.
*posting a link to someone else's interesting post does not constitute an attack on parents. my friends are pretty good at it, i think mine did a good job, i think the human race needs to continue in a way that doesn't suck. i have no idea how y'all do it.
