No Kids for Me, Thanks

[Ideologue]

Of course he didn't.  He bought the $2500 stroller, to show his neighbors who was boss.

[garbon]

Of course he didn't.  He bought the $2500 stroller, to show his neighbors who was boss.

[derspiess]

Did Malthus actually buy that stroller? The story happened so long ago I've forgotten how it went.

IIRC it was something his wife wanted.  Happy wife, happy life and all that.

[Malthus]

Article strikes me as the other side of the coin to baby-as-a-fashion-statement.

Both are equally vapid. 

Ok, Mr. $2000 Stroller. 

Did Malthus actually buy that stroller? The story happened so long ago I've forgotten how it went.

If you must know - not that the truth actually matters at this point - but no. 

What happened is that I related a story about a friend of mine who bought an outrageously expensive stroller, as an example of the absurdity of consumerism in our society (I actually bought an inexpensive stroller).

This morphed, in the usual Languish manner, into the notion that I myself bought a "$2,000 stroller", and became a Languish meme.

As I said, there is no fighting the meme at this point, so I don't bother.  The former occupant of that stroller, my son, recently put it best, after our trip to Mexico: "history isn't what you lived, it is what is remembered". 

[Richard Hakluyt]

I've met many adults who don't understand that.........bright kid 

[crazy canuck]

Article strikes me as the other side of the coin to baby-as-a-fashion-statement.

Both are equally vapid. 

Ok, Mr. $2000 Stroller. 

Did Malthus actually buy that stroller? The story happened so long ago I've forgotten how it went.

If you must know - not that the truth actually matters at this point - but no. 

What happened is that I related a story about a friend of mine who bought an outrageously expensive stroller, as an example of the absurdity of consumerism in our society (I actually bought an inexpensive stroller).

This morphed, in the usual Languish manner, into the notion that I myself bought a "$2,000 stroller", and became a Languish meme.

As I said, there is no fighting the meme at this point, so I don't bother.  The former occupant of that stroller, my son, recently put it best, after our trip to Mexico: "history isn't what you lived, it is what is remembered". 

Next you are going to try to tell us that you don't hate the French

[LaCroix]

in the US at least, it's selfish to not have children (if the person is capable of having children).

[garbon]

in the US at least, it's selfish to not have children (if the person is capable of having children).

[LaCroix]

and those who do have children are equally selfish.

[Admiral Yi]

But only in the US.

[garbon]

Thank God that I escaped Obama's America!

[LaCroix]

at least in the US 

though, i suppose the concept works for somalian families, too. the thought of a hypothetical child suffering is a selfish desire to forgo reproduction. the family doesn't know the child will in fact suffer. the mere fear prevents them, and they give in to that emotion. i think there are very, very few instances where parents could know their hypothetical child would in fact suffer to the point where the child would be better off not existing.

[Josquius]

Life is suffering

[Eddie Teach]

Life is suffering

Except in North Dakota, where people are too dumb to realize how unhappy they are. 

[Malthus]

Life is suffering

A Buddhist!