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Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children. (Edited)

2008-07-25T09:15:57Z

Thank God the Judeo-Christian heritage is not my heritage.
As for spamming websites... I can do that.
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If one can't afford children, one should not have children. (Edited)

2008-07-25T08:50:13Z

If one can't afford children, one should not have children.
Thanks to Julian, halfawake, possum, Keynes, Raan, and Evelyn for your
responses.
The ability to "afford children" can be defined as the ability to
shelter, clothe, feed, and educate children. I have chosen to use the
pronoun "one" in the predicate because it is a decision that should be

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-25T06:25:34Z

RaaN wrote:
Have you ever borrowed money, mortgage, credit card... etc,
to buy something you couldn't "afford" at that moment?

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-24T20:11:12Z

For my own take on the basic principle that one should not have
children one cannot afford there is little question in my mind that
children, like all those who cannot fend for themselves, are society's
responsibility, but the principle is a preventive admonishment.
Those who are idealistic as well as responsible can see to it they are

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-24T11:39:55Z

"The Lotus Sutra speaks of "someone finding a ship in which to cross the
water."
This "ship" might be described as follows: As a shipbuilder of
infinitely profound wisdom,
the World-Honored One of Great Enlightenment, the lord of teachings,
gathered the lumber
of the four flavors and eight teachings, planed it by honestly

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-24T10:54:11Z

Your "moral imperative" ignores genetics.
If only the "aggressive" in society are allowed to reproduce then
we we end up with a genome of that limited type "aggressive" gene - if
a virus etc
should occur that that genome is susceptible to then all humans get
to be extinct. The survival of a species is based on diversity within

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-24T04:37:24Z

duh wrote:
Roswell is in your mind. So is New Mexico.
Robert
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Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-24T03:59:00Z

duh wrote:
Compared to what?

Re: Intertroll Was: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-23T22:32:23Z

What does it matter?
Mind is only made up.

Re: Intertroll Was: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-23T23:28:37Z

RaaN...are You Saying...in an Abstract Way...that You can't Make up Your
Mind...?

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-23T23:18:28Z

halfbaked...You ever Heard of...Roswell...?

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-23T23:16:12Z

Julian...Are You a...Simpsons Fan...?

Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-23T21:59:07Z

RaaN wrote:
who knows, you might have won the lottery. timing is everything. I for
one would not want you to be "trimmed."
Robert
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Re: If one can't afford children, one should not have children.

2008-07-23T17:56:37Z

Had they trimmed it down to a nuclear family unit you wouldn't need to
deal with the likes of me either so double plus good.

Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (review)

2008-07-23T16:53:32Z

Link: [link]
The nature of photographs or photography has entered our common
language to the extent that we find ourselves speaking easily of
photographic memories or photographic likenesses. We have theatre that
titles itself, "I, camera". We even say that the camera cannot lie; an