dbaupp comments on On the Care and Feeding of Young Rationalists -- Revisited[Draft] [Request for Feedback] - Less Wrong

20 Post author: MBlume 05 July 2012 07:12PM

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Comment author: dbaupp 07 July 2012 03:01:11PM 2 points [-]

As far as I understand it (not a parent myself), being a parent is one of the best, most enjoyable and rewarding things many people say they have done. So the "purpose of having children" isn't necessarily prolonging the human race.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 07 July 2012 03:45:36PM 1 point [-]

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids seemed to suggest that parenting was most difficult when children are young, and most rewarding when they are grown up.