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Movie plots are not reality and don't make for compelling arguments.

As someone who plans to adopt kids rather than adding another human to an overcrowded planet, people who act like life is meaningless without reproducing strike me incredibly narrow-minded.

A third point as well -- humans are not manifest destiny. There is no imperative for our continued existence in this universe, so we have no obligation to reproduce -- any reason to reproduce you can think of is imagined by a brain evolved from millennia of creatures that decided to reproduce: selection bias.



I think you missed a part of what I wrote. By deciding to care for adopted kids you're firmly into the caring for others territory I put forward.




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