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Yaaay, discounting the autonomy of other people for your own selfish gain! Not only that, but CREATING people for your own selfish gain!
not at all. society needs more children. I am willing to take on the (considerable) trouble and cost of having and raising them. but the facts remain that children take care of aged parents - and in a demographic situation where we don't have several workers per retiree, the state cannot afford to step in and ensure the same level of care. So State benefits will be reduced for all retirees, and those who have children will be able to depend on them while those who do not (hopefully) have saved enough to make up the difference on their own. The problem being that now (because of the reduced work force compared to retiree numbers) we face a situation where there is a shortage of resources available to take care of retirees, which leads to a bidding war, so hopefully you saved more than your neighbor as well....
Ya know, I notice a lot of parents of that line of thought getting a nasty shock these days when they realize their kids are independent beings who get to make their own decisions.
you take care of your parents when they age. my folks are taking care of my grandparents, who took care of my great grandparents first. I will take care of them when they get older, and my sons will take care of me and my wife one day - gently telling me I shouldn't drive any more, and should let them come over every other weekend to do the yard work; or that maybe the house is too much for us to take care of now, but they found this really great place that's close to them... and so on and so forth. that's the beauty of family - we take care of each other.
Furthermore, I would rather live in a society where I get to decide exactly how decrepit I want to let myself get, rather than being medically forced to languish for as long as possible, which is the current state of affairs. Problem solved.
if you want to commit suicide at a given age that's your deal - but let's not try to push that as the only option for others, eh?