Woo, first post. IN other news, if someone else has pretty much posted the exact same arguments as me, I apologise, since I have neither the time nor attention span to read through 15 pages, although I did make it to four.
My Personal position on this would be to simply say that their is no such thing as a "choice". I'd rather not expand to the whole long and boring argument of determinism or libertarianism, but simply but, I, personally, am convinced that choice's are an illusion, free will doesn't really exist, blah blah blah.
However, I have an interesting arguments for and against which are better then me figuratively kicking the table over and going home.
1. Countless human lives have gone into your creation. You are the result of millions of years of hard gone evolution, and more then that, the incredible, unthinkably titanic effort, of every one of your direct ancestors (your mother, father, then their parents, ad infinite, almost) to bump uglies. At least one of your ancestors has probably had to engage in a life or death struggle, and much more likely, a helluva lot of them. By surviving, they were able to pass on their genes, resulting in unique children, who had unique children, who eventually resulted in you. The odds against you existing are millions to one, yet it still happened. Your ancestors fought wars, begged, crawled, and most probably murdered at some point or another, to survive. And one of the end results of this, is you. Not an intentional one, some of you may probably think, but still a result.
Isn't it slightly selfish that you chose to not take what you ancestors have done, all the effort, toil and hard work , and continue it? We are on a biological level at least, all about reproduction, and your elders worked through the entire medieval period of shit on the streets and witch burnings to get you here. if you didn't continue this, what would be the point of all that. Hundreds, possibly thousands, (I think) and if we include your evolutionary ancestors (apes, and further back then that) millions, BILLIONS of lifeforms into you existing, right here, right now, and your simply going to say pff, Im not having kids, its hard work, etc.
Argument 2. If your religious, and reading this website, your pretty much boned. Although I can't say I have evidence at hand for any book but the bible
"Go forth and multiply"
I'm pretty sure every book has something about creating kids for god.
This may not be true for hinduism, buddhism, sikhism, since I have less knowledge about those, but most western religions, yes.
And now that I have appealed to the 0.5% of people who are religious and reading this forum, ONWARDS.
Argument 3 : We are,as stated in argument one, biological machines focused on passing on our genetics. If you looked at argument 2 with some amount of scorn, believing all religions to be tosh and bother, your equally screwed. Because without a soul, besides a self invented purpose, your main point is too screw and be screwed. That is the entire purpose of biological life.
Well, if you actually managed to read through this whole thing, yaysies. We're doing well enough in the internet to actually discuss real issues