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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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Don't disparage someone for enjoying something you don't. It's about choice and allowing people to have the life they want to have.
Cut the sanctimonious attack on intelligence. I have a doctorate. I love going to museums alone. I have no desire to ever have kids. Ever.
But nothing makes me smile like being able to witness the purity of joy and awe as someone learning something new. Child or adult doesn't matter, but children show it more cleanly and plainly IME. I like helping and I like educating. Does that make me moribound? Because I get a dopamine hit when I spread knowledge and understanding?
Plainly speaking, you and I are total and complete biological failures. Life's only objective purpose is procreation - going back to self-replicating RNA molecules. The genes that perform best are the genes best at replicating themselves.
So before you go spouting off some slop about how someone has a "moribund" mind, maybe remember that we're the ones that are defective. But that's okay, because we are all more than our contribution to genetic diversity.
Act with more humility and kindness. Be confident in your own decisions, and maybe you'll act a little less like a shithead better-than-you-know-it-all.
That is wonderful and I'm genuinely delighted it brings you joy. The world would be a far better place if there were more people like you in it.
No. It makes you moribund if you need another person there with you to enter a "great and absorbent state of mind". For me the annoyance of having to watch over a kid far outweighs any potential joy I could derive out of educating them or watching them learn something new, which is why there is no place I would want to go or experience I would want to have that would be made better with the presence of a kid. It's that simple.