Thank you for sharing your thoughts too :)
Rights are a tricky thing since they are our own creation. We decide what we "should" do out of our judgement and then we enforce these thoughts upon reality, upon others and upon our expectations.
And yeah, I hadn't actually thought of that about children being our emotional support. Maybe not so much as pets but as an insurance of the future? Like investments in crypto, but with a much bigger emotional charge and a lot of genetics in the way.
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