Im an antisocial person who has lost all faith in most of humanity. I also am horrible with kids. Especially the spoiled rotten ones although this has to do with th eparents but anyway what im saying is i woul dove to outlive humanity. so my answer is HELL YES!!!!!
Poll: Would you trade the ability to have children for immortality?
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What? What? Why is this a question? Is there really someone out there who would not choose immortality? (looks at poll results) Well, son of a *****, I guess there are a few of you. To each his own, I guess.
I personally find children incredibly, unceasingly annoying and would never consider having any. I am the oldest of four siblings, which meant I was (unpaid, of course) babysitter, diaper detail, taxi, and launderer of pissy bedsheets when I was young. I also have about thirty cousins, every one of whom is younger than I am and was underfoot constantly. To this day I don't look at the sky when I'm walking, I look at the ground because I expect to be stepping over/around toys/toddlers/messes. And the crying -- the ceaseless, baseless, nails-on-the-chalkboard-of-my-blackened-soul CRYING, often by multiple children simultaneously? I'm supposed to want this in my HOME??
Never again.
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I personally find children incredibly, unceasingly annoying and would never consider having any. I am the oldest of four siblings, which meant I was (unpaid, of course) babysitter, diaper detail, taxi, and launderer of pissy bedsheets when I was young. I also have about thirty cousins, every one of whom is younger than I am and was underfoot constantly. To this day I don't look at the sky when I'm walking, I look at the ground because I expect to be stepping over/around toys/toddlers/messes. And the crying -- the ceaseless, baseless, nails-on-the-chalkboard-of-my-blackened-soul CRYING, often by multiple children simultaneously? I'm supposed to want this in my HOME??
Never again.
(Looks back again) Ninja'd by Mr Thin.
Nah. I wanna have offspring. What can I say? I love kids and having my own would be great. I rather the possible immortality of my bloodline lasting than literal immortality.
I'd love to, think of all the benefits, especially to mankind if a scientist or doctor were to do such a thing. Immortality would be fantastic for specific people, such as real intellectuals, charitable people, and various others. On the note of me being immortal without kids? You're just giving me an unfair advantage of a happy life 
. In short, yes I would choose to become immortal over having children, besides there's always adoption if I somehow do want one.
. In short, yes I would choose to become immortal over having children, besides there's always adoption if I somehow do want one.
Yes. And if I wanted kids I WOULD ADOPT.
Though eventually I would become bored and probably off myself any damned way.
Though eventually I would become bored and probably off myself any damned way.
Of course! It's win-win! I don't want children, but if I ever did, I could just adopt, and if I got tired of immortality, I could just fellate a 12-gauge.
How about I trade both of those in for a million bucks?
I don't want children, and immortality would eventually drive a person insane via a longer and longer personal perception of time. As we get older, time feels like it's passing by faster because every minute becomes an ever smaller percentage of our total experiences and memories, so you'd eventually get to a point where days and years would pass by in the blink of an eye. I don't know if humans have the mental capacity to deal with that and maintain sanity.
I don't want children, and immortality would eventually drive a person insane via a longer and longer personal perception of time. As we get older, time feels like it's passing by faster because every minute becomes an ever smaller percentage of our total experiences and memories, so you'd eventually get to a point where days and years would pass by in the blink of an eye. I don't know if humans have the mental capacity to deal with that and maintain sanity.
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Ha, that's pretty much my reasoning too, just a shame a lot of Escapists seem to have rather coloured views on the subject of children. Interestingly a lot of my RL male friends are like that though so I wouldn't be surprised if most the people here change as they grow older.Captain Pirate said:
All I need do is wait 15 years until I am sure I don't want to have anymore children and then take the immortality! the plan is idiot proof!
So I get to live forever and have sex with anybody ever and not have to worry? Where do I prick my thumb? Let's get this underway.
I would totally do it. Immortality has always been one of my dreams, changing death from an inevitability to a mere possibility would be wonderful. Granted I would prefer to have had a child or two before I became immortal but I also would be fine if I never had any natural children at all. I probably would end up adopting anyways.
Heh. Well, the thing is that out there in the vast reaches of the cold harsh place called reality, having sex and shooting babies from your loin is the only meaty way of becoming "immortal". Then there's writing smart stuff, singing, dancing, acting or stripping naked for generations upon generations of us humans, millions of what could have been babies getting lost in paper towels and bedsheets all over the planet. The horror, masturbation killed more people than all the wars... ever.Mr Thin said: