Poll: Would you trade the ability to have children for immortality?
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Totally agree. I find it genuinely surprising how many people here hate children.Satsuki666 said:
Living forever would become a blur of years and events that mean nothing, while everyone around you dies and moves on. And while I don't want kids at the moment, I'm in my mid-twenties so I'm planning on having some in the next 5-10 years. Bringing a little person into the world and raising them is such an amazing thing.
Don't want kids and there are so many kids that could use a good home anyway that I could just adopt. Though if I become some hobo eating rats it would really suck for a eternity. And I wouldn't even be a vampire with a soul so it wouldn't even be a cool hobo.
Yes that was an Angel reference.
Yes that was an Angel reference.
Mr Thin said:
I lol'd, its nail on the head with this post. I'd take immortality in an instant. All this nonsense of "Oh, how could you live and see all the bad things" is rubbish because its like most things we already face at present - you desensitise over time.
If anything, just think of the things that could be achieved with a longer life span? Technological advancements would continue uninterrupted by pesky things like death, amazing artists would continue to create etc. You would get the flip side that certain "bad people" would get immortality but the re-introduction of the death penality around the globe for serious crimes would quickly sort that out.
The only downside to all this in my eyes is that you would be around for the world ending which could turn out to be quite a painful experience!
No. I would very much like to have kids (event though it's only two). Rather than facing eternity alone, I'd rather spent whatever time I have left with loved ones that will remember me for the man that I was and continue on my legacy, essentially immortalizing my presence within the family.
Absolutely not. First off, immortality is one of the worst things I can imagine and no sum of human knowledge (if that's really even possible after 200 or even 100 years) or experience is worth the torture of a life with no end. Ever. That plus the eventual disconnect (one way or another) with your loved ones, then your generation, then humanity itself, followed by insanity.
Second off, I'm not a fan of children now, but I know I will want kids eventually. Hell, I can already recognize that I'm slowly changing my mind about how I feel about children. Most of the people responding yes to this I imagine are going to end up changing their minds down the road, no matter how much they might think that won't happen.
I think a more interesting question would be trading the ability of childbearing for invincibility with a natural lifespan. I still wouldn't trade my fertility even in that case, but to me it's more appealing. I'll embrace death when my time comes, but in the mean time I want to experience life to it's greatest natural extent and not have to worry about a painful or violent death.
Second off, I'm not a fan of children now, but I know I will want kids eventually. Hell, I can already recognize that I'm slowly changing my mind about how I feel about children. Most of the people responding yes to this I imagine are going to end up changing their minds down the road, no matter how much they might think that won't happen.
I think a more interesting question would be trading the ability of childbearing for invincibility with a natural lifespan. I still wouldn't trade my fertility even in that case, but to me it's more appealing. I'll embrace death when my time comes, but in the mean time I want to experience life to it's greatest natural extent and not have to worry about a painful or violent death.
At first I would have said yes, until you defined immortality. I don't want to live forever I want to jump out of a plane and not feel excruciating pain and die. Living forever would just be boring. I'll never have kids so I don't care about that part.
The more pressing question is why wouldn't you? Sure, you can't produce your own children but there's nothing stopping you from just adopting/kidnapping a day old baby and raising it as your own.
Well this question isn't that hard. You'd just have take steps before accepting the proposition.
E.G.
Step 1: Freeze some reproductive materials
Step 2: Bang, Bang, Bang, etc.
Step 3: Accept proposition.
Of course if you mean we physically loose the organ associated with the reproductive measures then I have to take some time to think it over.
E.G.
Step 1: Freeze some reproductive materials
Step 2: Bang, Bang, Bang, etc.
Step 3: Accept proposition.
Of course if you mean we physically loose the organ associated with the reproductive measures then I have to take some time to think it over.
We're talking eternal youth, right? Not just eternal life? Because if Greek mythology has taught me anything, it's that wishing for eternal life without eternal youth will get you screwed even by otherwise good-intentioned gods.Hunter65416 said:
