The Awesome and Cool Poll Thread - Poll #131: Would you pay more taxes if it meant receiving a pension when you retire?

[LoveMetal]

Caturday is the only way.
Even if my last one looked like a dumpster wrapped in sadness.

[incognito]

Holy crap that picture is unsettling. Even... Creepy.

[PluMGMK]

Agreed…

Anyway, let's get this new poll going now, because if I leave it till tomorrow I'll only forget! So, it had been preordained, this one's about having children. "I already have" is there to cover all bases, even though I'm pretty sure that's not actually the case for anyone here…

[Serza5]

I don't really care or have an ultimate desire. I would have kids with my future partner who definetely wants to have them but if they don't then I wouldn't be bothered either.

[nr0r]

Yeah absolutely. My husband and I plan on having about one or two kids for sure 10 years from now. That's about that for planning in regards to that, though.

[incognito]

Actually... Yes ! But not in the usual manner, I'd like to be the father of a clone. I suppose science will make progress in the next 30 years so I don't worry about that, also I'm not really hasty about it
I'm also really extremely tempted to exploit a running gag here, but it became really old lately and would sound mildly insulting for some. But I think just evoking that possibility already says way too much.

Also... Why the fuck that cat is watching so deeply inside me ?! I swear that after looking at his eyes for 5 seconds I have fricking shivers. Well, at least now I'll be able to quote Barney from HL2.

[Master]

On the topic of offspring, given how genetic modification is starting to gain traction. If you were to have offspring, would you have them modified in such a manner? And if so, what would be the limit? Would you simply make them resistant to disease and illness? Or if ethics allowed, try to improve on them?

It's something which I haven't really thought much about, but with this discussion, I was reminded how we touched on this back in high school.

[Ambidextroid]

I'd like children one day, though I wouldn't mind adopting. Earth seems a little crowded after all.

[Ray502]

I would really like to have children, but not too many. Three would be my most preferred number of children to have.

[Ambidextroid]

I think I'd prefer 2

[incognito]

On the topic of offspring, given how genetic modification is starting to gain traction. If you were to have offspring, would you have them modified in such a manner? And if so, what would be the limit? Would you simply make them resistant to disease and illness? Or if ethics allowed, try to improve on them?

Actually... Yeah, at least if it is without any danger.
But... It would be hard to improve myself cause I'm already goddamn near perfect.

[Keane]

eeeeyah? I don't know, I'm pretty in-between wanting kids and wanting more free time/dollaridoos. Definitely not if I don't have the proper finances for it.

I also think from a moral standpoint I might lean towards adoption, thinking in terms of overpopulation and climate change. I would rather not contribute to those things anymore than already is.

[incognito]

I'm pretty surprised that pretty much no one here is concerned about preserving the family's genetic patrimony. Is that so much of a forgotten value recently or is it just that you dudes here consider themselves so much as douchebags that they would be unable to withstand the company of their children ?

[Master]

Or perhaps we're more concerned with wellbeing, kids aren't cheap. I certainly don't want to start having offspring if they're just going to suffer because there's not enough income to support them.

[Ambidextroid]

I'm pretty surprised that pretty much no one here is concerned about preserving the family's genetic patrimony. Is that so much of a forgotten value recently or is it just that you dudes here consider themselves so much as douchebags that they would be unable to withstand the company of their children ?

I don't really understand how preserving your genetics is a value, I'd think your ability to raise children and the way you raise them would be much more of a value and much more of a factor for whether they'd grow up to be douchebags

[incognito]

Or perhaps we're more concerned with wellbeing, kids aren't cheap. I certainly don't want to start having offspring if they're just going to suffer because there's not enough income to support them.

Don't get me wrong, I don't talk about the choice of of having a children or not, biological or not, I'm talking about the preference most members of this board seems to have towards adoption rather than biological legacy.

I won't start that discussion, since it is again, getting into being considered as a primitive man of the Old World inferior to you modrern and fancy individuals.

[PluMGMK]

Sometimes I feel a desire to have my own kid (probably not more than one) but then I quickly realize just how badly I could screw them up. I'm in agreement with the moral imperative being towards adoption moreso than procreation but somehow I don't see myself being a good enough parent to actively enter into that arrangement. But still I don't know if I'll always feel this way.

BUMP: Right, the next poll is up, and the question is quite "Pacific".

[Serza5]

My brother can't pronounce the s at all when he says it. Not that I say i'm much better but I do say the S.

[Ambidextroid]

Never heard of this one, though I have heard many times people say "generally" instead of "genuinely".
Also slightly different, but I think anyone who uses "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" is in need of a hefty crucifying.

[PluMGMK]

Never heard about the generally/genuinely confusion. Though I suppose Miriam O'Callaghan keeps us all in line over here! Also agreed about the crucifixion.

BUMP: All right, I lifted this one from Matyuv's old poll thread, since he never concluded it. Also I need to stop writing these things late at night.