I love your story so much, I've tried to type out why for about 15 drafts now and it's just not working without sounding weird. It just hits all the right "family love" buttons I guess is the simplest way to put it.

Not steve?

This is classic victim blaming, "I completely agree that the hospital and CDC are to blame here. That said, she knew she was at risk" is no different to "I don't approve of rape, that said, look at what she was wearing".

All the best with your ER bills then.

If you have such a serious food allergy to an ingredient common in restaurants that it could put you in the hospital, it seems pretty reckless to be eating out at restaurants. I'm allergic to bullets so I don't go sit downrange at the gun club.

It's like watching the sprinkling kid double down.

Must be a US thing. the only way you'd get away with not paying for something you ordered where I've lived was if the restaurant had fucked up (wrong items, wrong ingredient, foreign matter etc etc). Tough shit if you didn't like it. Of course that's the general rule, some places might make exceptions but if you're…

You're talking about a chicken schnitzel there.

I had a friend once bring out a potty for her daughter in the middle of the lounge at a family bbq. WAS NOT IMPRESSED.

It looks good! I'd have no problems rocking that in my living room.

But he did use images owned by other potato guys! he's kickstarting his first potato salad, where did the potato salad pictures come from? hmmm? omg I'm arguing over potato salad smh.

Is this a satire on the German stereotype of being uptight and humourless?

How about we meet in the middle?

i lol'd

Actually I'm not even sure if there is a distinct biological urge to reproduce. There might just be the biological urge to have sex and the biological urge to protect offspring once you can see them.

I wonder if most people who attach strong value to genetic legacy acknowledge that their line (not to mention the species itself) will eventually cease to exist.

Thanks for the interesting talk, btw. I respect your opinion even though I don't agree due to things like collective human knowledge, agriculture, conservation, etc. Eventually, humanity dies at the end of our timeline. And then our DNA isn't so important. Though I understand where you're coming from.

Natural selection itself is utterly mindless, purposeless, and neutral towards outcomes.

Good points. There certainly is more than our genes as a legacy that we can pass on. In the grand scheme of things (at least in my view) those other things are bonuses. I retract my "only legacy' claim and replace it with "most important legacy". After all, if we all give up reproducing there'll be no-one left to…