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What motivates rationalists to have children? How much rational decision making is involved?
ETA: removed the unnecessary emotional anchor.
ETA2: I'm not asking this out of Spockness, I think I have a pretty good map of normal human drives. I'm asking because I want to know if people have actually looked into the benefits, costs and risks involved, and done explicit reasoning on the subject.
One more point that I haven't seen brought up -- listen to Queen:
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you're doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief,
Lord!
Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Personally, I'd recommend a dog or cat to this person.
Children as match makers when you're too old to stand on your feet? ;)
That's an interesting interpretation :-) it was also fun to watch it evolve :-D
I was calibrating political correctness.
Entirely within your own mind? I don't think you got any external feedback to base calibration on :-)
I got plenty of feedback from the intensive simulations I ran.