As many of you have no doubt noticed, I am a man who will
never father children, either biologically or through adoption. I refuse to have them in my life to such a degree, and I will go so far as to literally castrate myself if it comes right down to it. Why? There's lots of reasons actually.
- There's way too many people in this world already. Using the biological process to become a father adds yet another mouth to feed, yet another drain on our ever more limited resources. I view it as selfish to the point of stupidity to reproduce at anything beyond replacement rate.
- With 1, you might think that, then, I'd want to adopt. You are sorely mistaken. I cannot stand children. Babies are disgusting shit factories, toddlers are infuriating, young kids are almost always covered in a layer of filth a millimeter thick, and teenagers are assholes.
- I have a vast swathe of potential psychological and medical ailments I could pass on to a child. Depression, ADHD, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, bipolar disorder, brain cancer, schizophrenia, and lupus, just to name a few. The fact I can think even halfway normally, and am not currently fucking dead, is nothing short of a miracle.
- I am extremely uncomfortable around children. Conversing with them is difficult bordering on impossible, depending on their age.
There are more, I'm sure, but you get the idea. I'm not a kid person. Yet, when I reveal this to people, do they treat me with respect? Do they at least admit that I might have a salient point? No. Society has indoctrinated them into believing that they
must reproduce. That, without a child, a man isn't really a man and a woman is merely a girl. This is patently ludicrous, yet we're viewed as assholes, at best, pariahs at worst. Why? Well, its because of a system I refer to as the Cult of the Baby.
The Baby Cult has a disturbing fixation on reproduction, going so far as to deny reproductive autonomy to both men and women. Think about it: if you're under 30, what are your chances of a doctor allowing you to choose to remove your reproductive capabilities? Slim to god damned none. What's the bullshit line he throws at you when denying you your
right as both an adult and as a paying customer? "You might change your mind, one day." I might also change my mind about not wanting a Prius, too, but that doesn't mean its anywhere near the realm of possibility. Yet, they feel it is not only their right to deny you your autonomy, but their
moral obligation. Again, it all comes back to society's distressing fixation on reproduction.
Don't get me wrong, reproduction is a necessary act to maintain a stable population and perpetuate the species. However, I think its fairly safe to say that there are more than enough people, already. If memory serves, there's over seven
billion of us. Few things on this planet outnumber us, and not a single other species can match our technological capabilities. If we kept at replacement rate, and nothing more, then we'd still get all the brilliant doctors, scientists, and lawyers the next generation has to offer, but we wouldn't be overburdening our already heavily-taxed natural resources. Yet, even with the threat of imminent overpopulation, with no possible way to solve it as of yet, we still have our basic, primate urge to propagate beyond our ability to sustain ourselves. Those who contain their base, animalistic urges are viewed as cold, hateful, and unfriendly. Ironic, considering a lot of us tend to have the best interests
of our entire species in our hearts. But, the Cult persists. Continues to insist that
we are the ones that don't care. They hold people like Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar as paragons instead of the unthinking beasts that they are.
Why? We have to evolve. We must evolve. The sooner, the better. Well, that, or find a way to colonize another planet. Probably Mars. Either one would work.
