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[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

It's never too late to adopt and profoundly help someone(s).

I've never felt the desire to have kids ever, and always assumed if I were convinced to take that leap then I'd also adopt at least one for every one of "mine". I know I could have been as good/shitty father as my Dad, and perhaps more so. But it doesn't interest me much. I'd rather be a teacher with limited responsibilities, but I'm too unconventional, freethinking, and unique for most. I'll stick to making mass media (if I could focus).

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Yes, it is too late. My health has been terrible for the last 10 years, and there is no way I could take care of a kid. I can't work, and while my wife earns decent money, support for one child might still be enough to break us.

Plus, if we were to have kids we both feel the ONLY kids we'd like to have would need to be 100% our own DNA.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm sorry to hear that. Well, maybe there's other ways to "borrow" kids for a while - community centers, coach a team, etc etc etc. I've never felt the need to see myself cloned, for all my pros and cons. Maybe I just don't get it, and at this point, almost 50, maybe I never will.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

That's the difference: I know I'm perfect.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

LOL, then I guess you know I already responded to your mod mail.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I fail to see the link between that and the realization that one is perfect. You're perfect too, you know. Too bad you can't see it. :-(

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I was joking, and though I'm neither perfect nor perfectly omniscient, we shouldn't let perfection be the enemy of good or very good or excellent.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know if you consider yourself Christian, but what do you make of the statement that "God created man in his image"?

And I'm not perfectly omniscient anymore. I was born with that though. Let me tell you: what a freaky burden.