Having a baby is the best! I'm amazed by how many people can honestly say that they don't want kids. They give the most absurd reasons: Climate, personal freedom, and financial reasons, for example.
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The subjective experience of parental fulfillment is a profoundly potent, genetically mandated reinforcement mechanism. It is, undeniably, the most powerful immediate neurochemical reward cycle available to the species. However, to equate that personal fulfillment with the universal, singular purpose of human existence is to misunderstand the complex interplay between proximate drivers and ultimate evolutionary strategies.
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