An easy refutation of the BP/feminist retort, "You'll die alone."

Reginleifer · 2014-11-18T01:06:07+00:00

We all die alone. That argument has always seemed silly to me especially when people use it to justify having kids. You have kids and you will die in a home while said kids are out spending your money. Unless they're bugging you for your prescriptions. You can only rely on yourself at the end of the day.

SquidwardsEuphoria · 2014-11-18T02:02:39+00:00

At least you're being pragmatic. I'm suspicious of people who think that the ease of attracting young women in their thirties will continue forever because "Oh, I'll just be like Hugh Hefner and become extremely rich." Cool, easy plan! Why isn't everone doing this?!

I don't know why you dying alone or not is anyone's business anyway. I don't think companionship means that much to most RP men and I'm sure many of them are aware that they may not have it now, or later in life, if they just want to have ONS. Fine by me, it's the opposite of how I live my life but it's also not my problem.

JP_Whoregan · 2014-11-18T02:01:35+00:00

This is one of the dumbest shit people say..."you'll die alone". Everybody fucking dies alone. Unless, like OP's airplane analogy, you join a cult. The David Koresh Branch Davidians in Waco? They died together.

drok007 · 2014-11-18T00:34:47+00:00

I think the idea is more of having a legacy project in the way of children and family, not comparing it to dying in a plane crash. If you don't care about kids and family, then more power to you. Except you might as well go full MGTOW at that point since they are still taking and using your tax money.

figjamftw · 2014-11-18T08:46:28+00:00

Everyone dies alone. Might as well enjoy the life bit before you do. Tell the busybodies to go hug a tree.

Those_Who_Remain · 2014-11-18T10:28:24+00:00

"You'll die alone."

I really haven't heard this one as an actual accusation from anyone in my life. My uncle is 40+ and single as well, but I never heard anyone speak negatively about it like that.

My point is that it most likely isn't a 'BP/Feminist' argument at all. It's an argument for shitty people.

Reginleifer · 2014-11-18T01:14:21+00:00

Rather than settle with these poor scraps, I've decided to stay single until the day I die

Funny you should mention that, I just stopped seeing a girl on similar circumstances Everything was going swimmingly at first, and I actually chose her because I thought she was of good character, a nice Ortho Christian woman. But it turns out the more and more she spoke, the more tiny details about her real feelings towards religion, traditional families and sex came up.

I'm pretty patient, so it takes a while for me to give up on people. But eventually I couldn't even pretend to go with the motions. I'm worth more than that. :P

[deleted] · 2014-11-18T12:54:00+00:00

36 here. How long do you think money is going to make you happy? My point is, entropy marches on. You probably already don't enjoy a lot of things you did at 20 (like dancing all night), and this will be more and more. I could already write a long list, ten years younger than you (two day hangovers, the gut not liking spicy food anymore etc.) and maybe your body works better but sooner or later entropy catches up.

Another and deeper issue is that the number of friends / social circles tends to reduce as we get older. It is harder to make new friends and we lose old ones all the time.

For most people I know 50+ their spouse is pretty much a replacement for friends. Want to try a new ethnic restaurant and don't know anyone who would come with me? Take the missus! This kind of thing. My parents had basically no friends 50+. They died, got poor, moved away or sooner or later there was some bad blood.

Another thing is that I think ultimately any kind of happiness in life depends on achievements. It is not the act of drinking an expensive wine that is in itself good, but the whole "achievement unlocked, I earned this" feeling during it. It's a "trophy" earned. But as you get older these kinds of achievements get less and less important and there is basically one big kind of achivement that matters: succesful, healthy, wonderful kids and grandkids.

@RP if you are so big on biological determinism, what about the urge to reproduce and the urge to invest into offspring? Before you get started on "the alpha strategy is quantity not investment", let me point out that humans are incredibly K-selected, this is why we type on a keyboard instead of doing whatever rabbits do.

Title	An easy refutation of the BP/feminist retort, "You'll die alone."
Author	polyesterthong
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Comments	20
Date	November 18, 2014 12:22 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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