{"id":254,"date":"2008-08-18T21:13:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2008-08-18T21:13:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T01:13:50","slug":"selfish-or-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Selfish or Smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a bit of a debate going on around Shine today over this article<\/a>. The author has six reasons, not the best reasons ever, but valid reasons why she doesn’t want to have children.<\/p>\n

Some people left lovely comments calling this poor woman selfish. I say, wtf??? How is not wanting to have children selfish? Just because she can and doesn’t want to? Does this mean we should all have ten children because we can???<\/p>\n

If anything, I think the opposite is true. Having kids is completely selfish! Introducing more people into the world when there’s already a strain on resources?<\/p>\n

Of course, if everyone stopped having children, that would be disastrous. And the more people who have children, the more diverse the gene pool, which is good. The thing is, no one has children for these reasons. People have children because they want to have a family, they have a biological need to pass on their genes, they want to care for someone, they want someone to care for them, they don’t use birth control. They don’t have children to help society.<\/p>\n

I think the world could use more people that realize what a big responsibility raising children is. They certainly aren’t selfish, they’re smart.<\/p>\n

And if you’re curious, I am not one of these people, I have selfish genes<\/a>, I want a baby one day. That’s what I want because I know that’s what will make me happy. Just like not having a baby will make this woman happy. Isn’t that the important thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a bit of a debate going on around Shine today over this article. The author has six reasons, not the best reasons ever, but valid reasons why she doesn’t want to have children. Some people left lovely comments calling this poor woman selfish. I say, wtf??? How is not wanting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-46","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}