Life is a disease...

[ultimastrike]

... With a one hundred per-cent mortality rate.

Lately I have been reminded of how much I don't want to have kids, and how much I prefer cats. This notion reached actual conscious-thought potential this afternoon when I saw a clearly-unhappy J'aime hiding in her own kitchen from in-laws and their little childrens. So I actually started to think

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[sharonbay]

I am finding it hard to answer such a well thought out argument. According to your theory, there seems no reason to ever have one of these children things. I, long time reader-first time breeder, am at a loss to defend my somewhat silly choice of having children

[ultimastrike]

I certainly don't look down on people that choose to have kids! I am just embellishing my personal choice on the matter to make J'aime laugh. Although I do think that if you are going to get rewarded for every kid you have, then to be fair we should have a legal limit on offspring to deal with overpopulation and exploiting loopholes in the yacht amendment.

[sharonbay]

I think maybe a salary with a cap and residency restrictions need to be in place. I am already writing my congress people regarding the new ridulous traffic laws in VA, I shall just have to include the salary requests.

[ultimastrike]

Ender's Game had some interesting ideas about limiting the number of kids you're allowed to have (in the first few chapters). I don't remember the specifics, but it was considered social suicide to have more than two.

[sharonbay]

It's one of my favorite series, so I do remember. They got special dispensation as they wanted a "smart" kid to come out.

I also recall in the Jack the Bodiless series they were restricted from having more then two. The mother had to escape to have the third kid in a cave.

[jshillingford]

She also wasn't supposed to have Jack because they knew he would have a genetic disorder that would kill him. Just so happended he was so advanced he didn't need no stinking body! I really need to read Ender's Game. Of course, nothing can be read unilt POTTER is done.

[ultimastrike]

Spoiler: Ron discovers that Hogwarts is really an elaborate front for a combination drug-import/money laundering organization. He tries to tell Harry who is too busy pausing for long, dramatic periods of time.

Disillusioned, Ron turns to drinking. He gets a bar wench pregnant and is forced to marry her. Gradually he forgets about magic until one day Tinkerbell comes and explains that he must return to save his children from the notorious Captain Hook.

[jshillingford]

And Captain Hook is secretly Severus Snape in disguise!