tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3979453659914691259..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: BirthratesAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88612493768552980122019-01-29T12:54:15.327-05:002019-01-29T12:54:15.327-05:00Very plausible re-interpretation.Very plausible re-interpretation.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-72127339816055350212019-01-29T12:25:16.138-05:002019-01-29T12:25:16.138-05:00I guess if you're a victim who can persuade a ...I guess if you're a victim who can persuade a rescuer to beat the oppressor up, that's a kind of winning strategy.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61801592349815830422019-01-29T12:11:44.323-05:002019-01-29T12:11:44.323-05:00I wonder if the Oppressor/Rescuer/Victim analysis ...I wonder if the Oppressor/Rescuer/Victim analysis is really showing "Winners vs Losers"David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-74508631899270607092019-01-29T10:11:49.497-05:002019-01-29T10:11:49.497-05:00It's a little wimpy, isn't it? Our ancest...It's a little wimpy, isn't it? Our ancestors cheerfully or at least with a decent resignation brought children into the world when it was a heck of a lot more challenging than the present. Or would they have, if they'd been able to enjoy limitless sex without kids?<br /><br />There's more than a little reluctance in my past to have kids "yet"--and that didn't work out so well--but I never told myself I was thinking of the welfare of the hypothetical kids. Frankly the dominant concern was the effect on me: is this a good time? Will my colleagues use my brief absence to sideline me, always a danger? Can I live on my own savings; can I stand not to earn my own living? My only concern for a possible child was that a motherless woman doesn't make a good mother, and I have not at any age felt the slightest urge to associate with children. It certainly wasn't that I thought the world in general wasn't up to snuff.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16447649816204879762019-01-28T23:03:20.273-05:002019-01-28T23:03:20.273-05:00WRT valuable things lost:
“As Chesterton says, a m...WRT valuable things lost:<br />“As Chesterton says, a man’s reasons for not wanting his country to be ruled by foreigners are very like his reasons for not wanting his house to be burned down; because he ‘could not even begin’ to enumerate all the things he would miss.”<br /><br />I wonder--the information is probably out there somewhere--what the distribution of "number of kids I'd like to have" has been for men and for women over time.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-33551986677889002542019-01-28T23:01:47.145-05:002019-01-28T23:01:47.145-05:00I don't think my comment will have much to do ...I don't think my comment will have much to do with where your post was/is going... however, that's not going to stop me. <br /><br />The first time I ever told my father that I thought he was completely and absolutely wrong was when he commented that my daughter shouldn't have a baby (his grandchild!) because "who would want to bring a child into the world today?" Before then, I'd only been brave enough to tell him he might be wrong.<br /><br />Yeah, I sort of came "unglued" at his comment. I told him that my grandchild might be the one to finally find the cure to "cancer" or that he/she might finally figure out a way for the world to be at peace... or that he/she might finally come up with the ultimate recipe for cornbread. And then I told him that he should think about how he might have felt if his mother had told him the same thing. <br /><br />While I had disagreements with my father from the time I was 3 years old, it was well into my 50s when I first told him that I thought he was so utterly and completely wrong. We were both stunned.<br /><br />My father is not the first to hold the sentiment that the world is so awful that children should not be born into it. Frankly that doesn't make sense to me. <br />Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.com