Children-peers

Our children will be adults for much longer than they will be children. All things considered, it is more justifiable to view the act of conceiving and creating a child as the conception and welcoming of a peer.

As with everything, the Latter-day Saint theology proves here to be remarkably profound: the bodies that women conceive, carry, and nurture, become the mortal shell for personages coeternal with themselves. Paul's words here seem pertinent that they, without us, cannot be made perfect. They need a way to get to earth*, we can birth them here.

Who is greater, the one who opens the gate, or the one for whom the gate is opened? No condescension, no magnanimous act from us, no stooping to render service to lesser creatures -- children are not children.

The decision "not to have children" isn't just a decision not to have a small, cute human to hold, lose sleep for, clean up poop for, get stretch marks for, be needed by. It's also a decision not to have a grown-up.

* Article title: "We are the aliens we've been looking for"

What should be LAW and what should not?

Anything I find myself morally justified in forcing my neighbour to do, or not do, could be written into law. Any act that I would not force, at gunpoint, or with the threat of imminent incarceration, another person to do, or refrain from, should never receive my approval to be done by any government or police force.

How can I give my consent for one group to use the threat of force when I, myself, would not use it?

Ron Paul for President, 2012

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body.

--T. Jefferson