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Diogenes Dec 2020 10:48pm, 23 Dec 2020 56,051 posts	0 Diogenes Glad you agree, Ankh. Sam’s Town is The Killers best album Sam’s Town is their best song.
The Great Raemondo Jan 2021 10:10pm, 30 Jan 2021 7,163 posts	0 The Great Raemondo Breeding is an overrated human activity. If you can't reproduce naturally you should accept it, and adopt if you're so keen to be a parent. Being so hung up on your own DNA is narcissism.
Fragile Do Not Bend Jan 2021 8:05am, 31 Jan 2021 7,803 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend ^ this. Especially the people I saw on tv the other week griping that the pandemic had affected their access to fertility treatment.
Gobi Jun 2021 2:55pm, 16 Jun 2021 74,302 posts	0 Gobi I thought about posting in here but my unpopular opinion really is an unpopular opinion which would upset millions and if I was famous get me hung drawn and quartered so I shall keep it to myself :¬) ps. Stones were always ugly and most of their music is shite , Freddie and Queen on the other hand were pretty espcecially Rog in Drag and 90 % of their music is great :¬)
EvilPixie Jun 2021 2:58pm, 16 Jun 2021 25,839 posts	0 EvilPixie 100% Rae there is enough kids who need homes already in existance
Gobi Jun 2021 3:03pm, 16 Jun 2021 74,304 posts	0 Gobi I don't think you should have children if you have a genetic disease/disorder and there is a 10% or greater chance you will pass that on. I just think it is cruel to bring a child into the world when it may suffer from day 1
faithfulred Jun 2021 3:08pm, 16 Jun 2021 710 posts	0 faithfulred I do agree with your point Rae, although I don't think it's the DNA thing that drives this desire - I think it's wanting to experience the whole pregnancy/birth/holding the baby in your arms kind of thing. (I don't know - I suppose you'd have to ask someone that went through fertility treatment for their reasons...)
WA Jun 2021 4:50pm, 16 Jun 2021 8,845 posts	0 WA Gobi- there was a news article a few days ago about a couple having a baby- she has a horrible degenerative genetic disease and there's 50% chance her baby will inherit. All I could think was- the poor bloke who will have to nurse his wife and then potentially his child as well. It made me really sad, and angry at the same time.
Gobi Jun 2021 5:03pm, 16 Jun 2021 74,306 posts	0 Gobi indeed, I may have read that but I have also seen this first hand and it makes me really sad.
The Great Raemondo Jun 2021 5:03pm, 16 Jun 2021 7,833 posts	0 The Great Raemondo I do know a few who've conceived through fertility treatment, and a few who went through it all unsuccessfully, and I know that it was a total emotional roller coaster for them (a heartbreaking, ultimately marriage ending, one in one case) so I didn't want to make it any worse by asking them why they were bothering (I probably wouldn't have put it in exactly those words, of course, but the underlying question would be difficult to hide) no matter how incomprehensible it is to me. I do think that when there's a known high chance of passing on a debilitating degenerative condition then allowing the treatment to happen should probably count as malpractice. I mean, moral consensus is finally turning against breeding practices in dogs that result in congenital deformation or debilitating conditions, how is it less cruel to create children with conditions we would consider inhumane in animals? But then we've had the ability to put animals humanely out of their misery for years and in too many cases even people capable of expressing clearly that they would like to be offered the same mercy are still denied that option.