I was not sneering, L:H. I was simply commenting that some people have children because they have an irresistible desire to send their genes and their memes forward though time. And also, that the impulse is a low-level substitute for other kinds of contributions some people could make. I think it is a mistaken belief to feel you are achieving some fraction of immortality simply because you have combined your chromosomes with another and sent the genotype forward. I don't think it is a bad thing to do, mind, as the future of the reace depends on it occurring.

But improving the race in some way is certainly a higher good, through improving thought, art, education, or technology in positive ways. In this respect, brooding trumps breeding.


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