[ExI] population bomb?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, you would not deny that people who adopt children might not be as
interested in them as in one's biological children.  EVolution isn't
everything.  Or even without children, people might have spent their lives
helping others (does being good at a job and doing a good job, not, in the
overall view, benefit the entire human race, where all of your genes are
duplicated many times over?)

Childless couples have not failed in life.  I view my effect on my students
as far more important than my effects on my children.

bill w

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:40 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >>… Childless people have a different outlook than
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> >…Your thoughts, please?   bill w
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> Billw, having raised children you have been drawn into things like the
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> Before I spawned offspring, I was aware there was a public school nearby,
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> oddly fulfilling.  This is ME talking, sheesh.
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> If one has no biological offspring, the end of one’s life is really in
> many ways the end of one’s concern (there are many exceptions of course
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> etc.))  With biological offspring, some things just matter a lot more, such
> as one’s own family tree.
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