Nuka zaria: longtermist parenting?
I’m not totally kidding (ok, no more puns). Maybe reproduction could be seen as a credible commitment with the future—at least for rational people that actually ponder on having children.
(That’s something that weighs against me having children: do I want the people I care about most to live in the future? hmmm… maybe I’ll think again in a few years)
I wonder if there’s going to be a similar question on adoption
It reminds me (I’ll have to share it) this weird sonnet (On fate & future) I drafted (sorry for any lousy rhyme or offense I may have caused to this beautiful language, but I’m not a native speaker) for some friends working with Generation Pledge:
Unhealing stains, sons to be slain / As it’s written: jihad and submission / We let Samsara ourselves drain / While Lord Shiva stated a mission.
Mystics, and yet, we don’t believe / For no told miracles anticipate / What brought us luck, skill and fate / The true great wonder we might live:
In a century – in History, just a moment – / The length of happiness has grown six-fold / And more than doubled the expected life /
Now, let it be your faith and my omen / As their fears and promises grow old / No more be bound to ancestors’ strife.
Nuka zaria: longtermist parenting? I’m not totally kidding (ok, no more puns). Maybe reproduction could be seen as a credible commitment with the future—at least for rational people that actually ponder on having children. (That’s something that weighs against me having children: do I want the people I care about most to live in the future? hmmm… maybe I’ll think again in a few years) I wonder if there’s going to be a similar question on adoption
“Reproduction is a credible commitment to the future” is a potent meme.
It reminds me (I’ll have to share it) this weird sonnet (On fate & future) I drafted (sorry for any lousy rhyme or offense I may have caused to this beautiful language, but I’m not a native speaker) for some friends working with Generation Pledge:
Unhealing stains, sons to be slain / As it’s written: jihad and submission / We let Samsara ourselves drain / While Lord Shiva stated a mission.
Mystics, and yet, we don’t believe / For no told miracles anticipate / What brought us luck, skill and fate / The true great wonder we might live:
In a century – in History, just a moment – / The length of happiness has grown six-fold / And more than doubled the expected life /
Now, let it be your faith and my omen / As their fears and promises grow old / No more be bound to ancestors’ strife.