Maybe Not My Best Idea
Greetings all, Steve here. Ya know, sometimes the ideas that seem like the best, well, they just aren’t. I was talking with a friend the other day about how you’re supposed to decide when to have kids. It’s a major stress for most young couples, because there are so many factors to consider: Do you have enough money, are you stable enough in your jobs, would anybody but a complete loon have children to begin with? These are important questions.
When you turn on the news and you see terrorism, war, plague, violence in schools and so on and so forth, you start to think that you’d have to be completely unhinged to bring a child into the world. Then again, for those who eventually want children, a woman has a limited number of productive years, so trying to decide when to have children is a big problem, because there’s no easy solution. We talked at some length about all the problems associated with having children and came to no satisfactory conclusion. The conversation then wandered into talking about freezing embryos and how many people are morally against it. And it was then that I had one of my patented fantastic intuitive ideas: freezing the babies.
The way I figure it, if it’s ethically wrong to freeze embryos and if you biologically need to have a baby young, but don’t actually want it till your older, then simply have the baby and then freeze it for a few years until your better set up. Actually, as I thought about it, it occured to me that that would be a great way to deal with your kids when they started to irritate you: Just freeze them for a couple months and get some time to yourself.
Quite impressed with my intuition, I shared my brilliant new idea with my girlfriend, Meghan, who happens to be a woman and therefore sometimes doesn’t see the brilliance of my ideas for purely hormonal reasons and this was just such a time. I explained my plan to her in full detail and, without even taking the time to fully appreciate the intricacies and many advantages of my idea, replied: “You want to freeze babies?!”
Women have no imagination.
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:59 am
You may be interested in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org/ . Keeping our numbers down is a good idea, though extinction may not be necessary. BTW, they do NOT advocate culling, just non-replacement. I wrote a little on the subject from a woman’s point of view in this comment on a Peak Oil related topic
http://www.transitionculture.org/?p=472#comments (comment number 27).
There is an interesting picture on this website http://www.timesonline.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,351113,00.jpg showing a timeline how the planet may recover without our presence.