I DON'T WANT CHILDREN!! !

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Of the twelve billion or so humans who have ever lived, how many of them have been remember for a thousand years following their deaths?

ruveyn

I've never wanted to have kids. I have zero maternal instinct. The only emotions I've ever felt towards children are anger, frustration, disgust and resentment. Never once have I looked at a child and thought, "Aww, it's so cute! I totally want one!"

My mom agrees that me having kids would be a bad idea, and pointed out that my one of my uncles and his wife never wanted or had any kids, and that it's perfectly OK. On the other hand, my dad has implied that one day I'll change my mind and suddenly start wanting to have kids. Yeah, like that'll ever happen...

WAY TO GO! Twist an idea a LOT and distort the meaning to try to make your point sound more reasonable.

Outside of some people in religious circles, like noah, abraham, isacc, jacob, etc... HOW MANY have been remembered for 1000+ years for having large families? Even "OCTOMOM" will probably be forgotten within 20 years. And the impact she has had so far has NOT been good! But how about Watt, einstein, Volta, ohm, faraday, marconi, turing, dickens, geothe, shakespear, etc....?!?!?!? They may not be known for large families, but they are STILL remembered, made some contribution, etc... Heck, without watt, volta, ohm, faraday, etc... this world would not be recognizable!

Out of the 12 billion, as you put it, only maybe a few hundred thousand may be remembered today. Out of those, FAR fewer are famous. Out of those FAR fewer did ANYTHING really good for society.

Well, let's see now - there were quite a few Roman emperors, a number of Roman, Greek, Germanic, and Brittonic military figures (Boudicca ring a bell?); Laozi, founder of Taoism, and his student Zhuangzi; K'ung Fu-tzu, better known today as Confucius; historians like Tacitus and Josephus... wow, there seem to be a lot of people who were remembered for over a thousand years after their deaths, don't there?

On the other hand, I can't find any sources for any of these people actually having children...

No. I can't function when other people's children around so I definatly couldn't handle any of my own. I'm too OCD and loose my paitence too easily with children. I hate kids anyway.