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The Case For Kids

laidnyc
July 10, 2013

I am the spitting image of my maternal grandfather.  Those who knew him always say so.  We have the same build, same eyes, same cheekbones. I’ve inherited his penchant for womanizing and several of his hobbies and dispositions.

One time when my mother walked in on me while I was smoking a cigar and playing poker and wisecracking with friends, she was moved to tears because it reminded her of her father.

My maternal grandpa is also dead.  He has been dead, for a long time, since before I was born.  I never knew him.  He never got to hold me or teach me anything.  He never got to make a fresh-spirited joke about how fat my mother was getting while she was pregnant with me.  I know he would do that because its what I would do.  Shit, he never even got to meet the man who would become my father.

None of that matters, because here he is, I see him when I look in the mirror, I hear his thoughts when I think, I fuck the girls he would fuck, I make the money he would make.  It is by sheer chance that his genes influenced me more than anyone else in my lineage, but here I am.  Here he is.  I am him.  His conscious mind is dead.  He is not.

I am proud of my genetics.  They are not perfect, but I have several enviable qualities.  Its because of these qualities that  centuries ago, men with my genes fought for resources, status and pussy and were successful.  Today, using their genes, I am becoming successful as well.

See, I don’t think having kids is the ultimate measure of a man or alpha.  It is the consequence of, not the driver of pussy desire.  Men haven’t evolved baby rabies like women.  However, some of us have healthy K-selected instincts to want to have and provide for our own spawn.  There is something natural about it.  It is due to these instincts that I would surely feel regret if I never became a father.

You see, too often this debate is black and white.  There are sworn bachelors claiming anyone who marries and has kids is an idiot, and there are righteous family men claiming anyone who doesn’t pass his genes on isn’t a true alpha.  People make their choice, then in order to make peace with their choice, they claim that it wasn’t a choice at all and anyone who claims otherwise is stupid.

Truth is, both sides are right and wrong.

I can’t argue with a guy who chooses to run free in an easy-sex society rather than settle down in the burdensome responsibility of providing for a wife and kids with a legal system stacked against him.

I can’t argue with a guy who wants to build a legacy and pass his accumulated knowledge and wealth to a genetic lineage of his own flesh and blood.

The men who crusade against having kids make great points.  They are right, it is a huge risk and sacrifice.  For many men, it is probably not a good choice.  However, to those of us with K-selected instincts, NOT having kids would also be a sacrifice.

Life always contains trade-offs, evaluate your desires accordingly.

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Title The Case For Kids
Author laidnyc
Date July 10, 2013 9:00 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Blog LaidNYC
Archive Link https://theredarchive.com/blog/LaidNYC/the-case-forkids.56568
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