re: Seth rogen doesn't want to have kids so he can smoke weed

Baws love freedom as long as people use it like baw wants.

I think a lot of people end up having kids either by accident or "it's the thing to do", then spend the next 20 years convincing themselves that it was the best thing to ever happen to them, and don't realize the full weight of creating a person. Having a kid is agreeing to the difficult parts of it. It's agreeing to have a kid with a severe, violent mental disorder. It's agreeing to have a kid who gets pregnant at 14. It's agreeing to have a kid who overdoses. It's agreeing to have a kid who kills themselves or someone else.

And what do you, the parent, get out of it? A ruined marriage? A kid that grows up and estranges you? Hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain? Late retirement? A mother who hates her body and a father who "goes fishing" to escape the family he created?

"Well that's why you be a good parent!"
You don't know how to be a good parent to your particular kid in your particular situation, and you don't find out how NOT to be a good parent until it's too late.

Pass.

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Seth rogen doesn't want to have kids

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It's a rare win for society. We need people like him to avoid procreation.

Glad you’re not procreating

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get why someone would be scared of having kids

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Scared? Sounds like they just don’t want kids.

I heard his interview where he was talking about this. He said they get more joy from lying in bed naked, smoking weed, and watching movies than any parents get from their kids. Those were his words. But how can he know that? He’s never experienced having kids. It’s a foreign concept to him. He has no idea what sort of joy parents get from their children because he has no children. And seeing other people with their kids doesn’t give you the perspective of actually having kids. I use to think it does. But it really doesn’t. Only when you’ve had kids do you actually have the perspective to understand what it means to be a parent.

Having said that, he’s free to his opinion. If he doesn’t want kids, that’s up to him. If he wants to lay in bed naked watching movies, more power to him. If he wants to do that instead of ever having kids, it doesn’t bother me at all. That’s his choice. But as someone who’s done both, I can say unequivocally that the later gives you far more joy than the former ever could hope to give.

But to each their own.

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heard his interview where he was talking about this. He said they get more joy from lying in bed naked, smoking weed, and watching movies than any parents get from their kids. Those were his words. But how can he know that?

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yeah thats a pretty stupid thing to say. maybe he was high

No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that parenthood is the defining emotional experience of a lifetime. It is love as a verb every day. To be loving and nurturing. To give your kids gifts of the mind and heart that fortify them and make them unbreakable. It takes you to wonderful places, where self sacrifice and personal honor and teaching ethics and mentorship and showing and affection and any number of things that are ONLY available through parenthood. You don’t get that way by living a small life of self- reverence. And you don’t get that from getting stoned. Not sure why that bothers you, and I couldn’t care less if you want to spend your life in a nihilistic daze. Knock yourself out. I actually thank people this self- limiting that have trouble adulting, or that are self medicating every day most sincerely for NOT procreating. Not every rocket launches . There are duds.

Headline should read

"Lib Canuck trying to sound cool; sounds stupid"

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I’m saying that parenthood is the defining emotional experience of a lifetime. It is love as a verb every day.

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for some people*

you are confusing your own personal experience with a universal truth.

there are people that murder their kids. what was the thread i saw the other day where the day shot his teenage son after they left disney world?