My outlook on life is pretty twisted and bleak, but I just really would feel horrible and selfish bringing life into this cruel, fucked up, cesspool of a world. It just wouldn't be fair.
THIS IS NOT ARGUMENT.
But I'd love to talk that over sometime. I get the concept/idea, but I'm of two minds. I know for me,
it was purely selfish, I wanted to pass on my stellar genes it wasn't really conscious. I waited until I was 33 before I had my daughter, and it was all those things that you hear - best thing ever, changed my life, etc. etc. - but I also lived enough as an adult that I totally see the opposite. SO MUCH of my life would be different if I didn't have a kid. I'd've lived overseas for sure, I would have moved more for work, I would have been divorced a LOT earlier, I'd be significantly more wealthy, etc. But FOR ME, I am a more compassionate, understanding person, I'm a better man and partner, and I'm a more SOBER man for having a kid. At the end of the day, I am proud of how my daughter, even at the tender age of 19, is doing her part to make the world a better place than how she found it.
Again, don't take this for argument; I get you, and I support your position 1000% (the right to have it). I'm really just offering a point of view and with that, suggesting pretty strongly that it IS a personal decision, and the rationale, at the end of the day, doesn't really matter and neither point of view really ought to be "encouraged" except to equalize them.