Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
I read this and I just shook my head. Opposite quadra complete miss. I did like reading the phrase "the power of love overcame your inhibitions and you decided to have a child together." Definitely quotable.

And, again.
I don’t know what confused you about the second quote (I was just asking what ashlesha’s mother was resigned about, if that wasn’t clear) but re. the first, my thinking is that love (even in the sensual sense, despite the hesitancy many people I think feel to consider it “love”) is generally good for people and for society. Too much thought and hesitancy tends to inhibit its spontaneous formation and tends instead to create an attitude of cynicism and distrust for other people, which I consider generally bad to the extent that it dominates someone’s attitude toward all life, or worse, an entire society’s attitude. I think it’s admirable to put that skepticism aside and open one’s self up to a complete stranger, to love them, and to be willing to share your future with them — as I imagined happened in ashlesha’s scenario, though it seems to have been more pressured than that.

In general, I guess, I would say it’s good to pursue and to be made happy by simple human pleasures; the fact that these pleasures are often out of sync with the anti-human nature of modernity only indicates that modern civilization ought to change, not that human nature should. Falling in love with someone and producing a child is one of the most fundamental things a society needs to reproduce itself; the fact that having a child could mean poverty and misery — especially for young people, who are most likely to fall in love — is terrible. In a better world, I think, young parents should be given all the support necessary to raise their children with the same idealistic love they felt for each other, and, though I recognize it might be for the best to discourage young people from intentionally having children, when it does happen, their pregnancies would be celebrated rather than an object of scorn.