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It wasn't a curse at all. A description of reality I notice you don't try to contradict. And I didn't refer to the memory of me or anyone else. Having kids means there is a chance that, a century from now when all knowledge or memory of you is gone, a part of you and all you did while you were alive lives on in…

I suppose "so what?" is a legit point. The answer, I think, is that people seek meaning in their lives. And if what you do or what happens to you totally ceases to have even the slightest meaning a few years after your death... Then did it ever have any meaning to begin with? There are lots of answers to that…

What if kids only make you happy some of the time? Or even most, but not all of the time? How can you judge in advance if having kids will make you happy? Seems like pure guesswork. Anyway, I don't think happiness is the highest aspiration. Its a bit too amorphous to be a legitimate goal, in my opinion.

I don't think hunger is an emotion. I'm not sure I understand your point about knowing what can be unnatural; I wasn't referring to some anthropomorphic "nature" but to the nature of a thing, in this case a person. Anyway. Good talk!

Thanks, Kristen, you on the other hand are a gem. She can choose whatever she wants. If she really doesn't want kids she shouldn't have them - better for her, for her theoretical kids and for the rest of us if she doesn't unwillingly raise children.

Is it a trope? I think its a basic animal instinct, even the core function of life in general. Like any instinct, it doesn't respond to something as theoretical as death-by-supernova.

Would be, I guess, but I think the sun exploding is probably still a little ways off :P

Fair enough. Some people feel more strongly about not being a completely ephemeral presence; others don't really mind.

When you die, every piece of you will be gone forever. If you're lucky some of the things you did might live on in other people. If you are absolutely extraordinary you might do one thing that will affect many people. But most likely, after your friends are gone this comment I'm replying to might be among the most…

Bieber didn't say it. Rogen said it. I call BS on your reading comprehension.

Second or third time in this series that the word DIFFUSE has been used when the word DEFUSE is intended. They are not the same!

Fair enough. You are not required to defend your claims, just as others are not required to assume they are anything but bullshit if you can't be bothered to defend them. This is the Internet; no one is going to believe you just because you say so, nor thank you for giving them a laundry list of names instead of an…

So what you're saying is, you can't point to anything specific as a citation for your assertions about preverbal memory and "felt sense." Since you were unwilling or unable to provide any backup, I went around and looked for myself. A review of pubmed turned up an extremely small number of papers on the topic of later…

That sounds like a bunch of bullshit. A fancy theory that is conveniently impossible to disprove. Love to see whatever empirical research supports your "felt sense" preverbal memory claims. Also the "babies left alone become sociopaths." Sounds like more bullshit.

I think its really interesting that your gut interpretation of statistics about women cheating in relationships is to blame the socialization of men.

Pretty sure you stole that from a really old YouTube video:

She didn't make a threat, she made a joke. The two are not interchangeable. No one, anywhere, interpreted what she said as a genuine threat to bomb an airplane. People should be charged with making threats when they make actual threats.

yeah I think they realized that she was a teenager from the Netherlands, not an Al Qaeda recruit in Yemen, and I don't know why she had to be arrested. I can understand that police have to investigate all threats to some level or another; I can even understand charging someone with some sort of nuisance misdemeanor…

Are such non-specific threats really terroristic? Should we be charging people with crimes for saying "I'm from Pakistan and on April 20th I'm planning something big"?