angry quote about having children

[jasondrake]

"Think how utterly, evilly selfish it is to have a child. Think of it! "Oh, honey, wouldn't a baby just be splendid? With its little hands, and its little feet and its little arms and legs and face and smile. Oh, we have to have one." Great, and once it's done, here is another little human to have to grow and learn what a sick collection of animals it is into which he's been born; who has to learn the pointlessness of the asinine cycle of human life; the pain and unhappiness that accompany; the stupidity of the majority; the outrage of old age and death; the unfair circumstances of competition amongst organisms; the injustice of suffering, the absurdity of doctrines and ideologies; the cold blade of war; the inner demons of hunger, desire, self-loathing; who will be taught to hate and feel shame and fear and remorse, regret, guilt; who will one day suck from nonexistence another little conscious body to continue the hideous lineage of incessant dark-humor; and who will one day die, wrapped in a urine-stained, hospital-issued death-shroud, plugged into beeping, blipping machines, fed through dripping bags armed with needles and at the mercy of smart-ass little nurses, who know not yet that they, too, will be faced with this end. What more horrific and vile an act than that of having a child? There can be none. Torture is not worse, murder is not worse, nor rape or anything else, because it is birth that precludes them all. Were it not for birth, none of these other atrocities would have even a chance to be performed. It is the miracle of birth and life that drowns the light of the world, and it is that selfish obeyance of desire that is hung over the heads of all parents in the look of disgust on their disaffected teenager's face. How can one repay an infinite offense?" - Shane Smith

Comments

[tiger-melanie.livejournal.com]

You should SO post that in childfree

[xamses.livejournal.com]

A bit over the top if you ask me. You'd think there wasn't a single ounce of joy in being alive. While I do think people have kids for stupid, selfish reasons, I think that level of cynicism loops around into the realm of parody.

And hell, I'm a cynic.

[young-deity.livejournal.com]

This is just plain over the top and I find it quite offensive. These are the -people-who get upset if you breastfeed your baby at a restaurant.

I think it's a bit over the top on purpose but...

[drusilla71.livejournal.com]

I do take offense when people breastfeed in public. Not because it's gross or anything. Actually, I applaud them for their effort to provide the best, albeit, not necessarily the most convenient form of nutrition for their children.

The problem comes by HOW they do so. Most women I see, are discreet. They use a blanket or a towel or something. Sometimes I don't even realize what they're doing unless I bother to try and get a look at the baby.

However, I believe that it is crass and rude to whip out your entire tit in public, with your kid hanging off the front of it and then get all pissy when people stare, older children point, or someone politly asks you to move off somewhere a little more private. You can feed your kid any way you like, but I personally don't want to be exposed to your attitude, or your big, saggy tits. ;-)

*drops 2 cents*