Thursday, January 24, 2008

Children are NOT our future

I'm just so tired of people using their kids as an excuse as to why the rest of us cannot do things. You can't call after a certain hour because "I'm putting my kids to bed" (apparently this is a long, complicated process of James Bondian circuitousness). There can't be certain types of entertainment because "what about the children??!!!??" will be shrieked in hysterical tones. In fact, if lazy parents don't want to do something, or deem something is inappropriate - because, after all, they have appointed themselves moral guardians now that they have KIDS - they can just trot out that old canard "WHAT ABOUT MY KIDS?"
Well, kids are not a shield for your newfound puritanical views. Not EVERYTHING in this world needs to be for kids. How did adults get strongarmed out of certain things in life by nonliterate, diaper-wearing overgrown sperm cells?
Also, you're not going to be rewarded for your kid-having ways (except, perhaps, by the government). As a society, we should stop giving latitude to people because they squeezed out a kid or two. That's NOT, I repeat, NOT a talent and should not be treated as such. It has been done by literally billions of people over the years, and the urge to procreate is ingrained in humans to keep the species going. That's all it is. It's not an open license to turn the world into a sickening Disney channel of spoiled tots and their simpering, pathetic parents.
As we all know, an intelligence test is not required to start the breeding process. The world is upside down: instead of rewarding the breeders, we should reward the brave, intelligent, strong souls who have had the forsight and will and sympathy NOT to have bring yet more people into this world. Where's our reward? Where's our recognition? Where's our accolades?
The solution to all this world's problems is certainly not MORE people. So in response to all the parents of the world's lily-livered whining about their "kids", I say, we shouldn't feel bad for you, feel sad for you, feel sympathy or empathy for you, or, most importantly, in any way be manipulated by you simply because you weakly chose to have a kid, or, worse, more than one.
If you love them so much, as the accepted default cliche goes, STOP using them as an excuse, or as an OUT for something you don't want to see or do. To have kids can't simultaneously be a blessing and a handicap, depending on which way the wind blows that day. You CHOSE to have kids. No more sympathy.

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