You're the one that said everyone you know has been attacked by a vicious dog. I don't think I even know anyone that everyone they know has been attacked by a vicious dog. I'm just matching your ridiculousness with my own.

Probably not, but it sounds like you have a very particular problem with this. Unnaturally so. My dog is very sweet and even-tempered and gets along with most everyone, so when she has a negative reaction (never bitten anyone) to someone I pay attention.

You must have some innate evil in you (as well as everyone else you know) for dogs to react so violently towards you.

Not EVERYONE has been bitten by a violent dog. I haven't, nobody in my family has, no friend that I'm aware of has, and frankly I can only think of one person that I know that has been.

nonplussed

I had a second grade teacher like that. So many kids wet their pants in her class.

That was my reaction as well.

As a bike rider texting drivers are one of the biggest threats on the road to me.

That comment about nobody's child affecting the population was directed at me. And had absolutely nothing to do with me and personal choices, but humanity writ large.

You're arguing from a philosophical standpoint (which I don't disagree with), I was simply answering a very basic question. It's not about me or my personal feelings, it's about humanity and the rationality of having children.

And my hero growing up.

I never said I cared one way or the other, I said it was a rational impulse. It's one of our basic drives. (food, sleep, sex)

My heart goes out to you. Mine are adults (and great friends) now, but man those teen years sucked!

Are you even serious with that? You asked a simple question, you got a simple (factually correct) answer.

It's really not that bad!

I have two kids and I had the same experience. So now, two people have told you that!

Please don't let stuff like this freak you out. I have two children and the experience with the second one was so much easier! And even though they'll fight like crazy (probably), they'll also keep each other occupied.

Yep. Sure my two sisters and I had some ass-kicking arguments when we were younger (what do you thinks going to happen when you force people to live with you!), but now I consider them my best friends.

Same basic experience with me. And now my sons are adults and best friends. I think they're pretty happy I had them both - I know I am!

I had the opposite experience. My first son was difficult (but it was fine, because I didn't know it at the time, it was "normal"), and my second son was a dream! Even their births were like that - first time, hard labor with minor complications, second time, hardly a push.