Comments on: I'm an evolutionary failure!

By: bhagwad

bhagwad — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:44:20 +0000

It’s easy to break anything down to make it sound trivial. For example, pain is nothing but electrical impulses being interpreted by our brain – but try telling that to someone suffering from gout! Similarly, our body itself is nothing but a bag of chemicals. The important thing I feel is to remember that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts…

I’ve discussed this with my wife and she doesn’t feel any need to propagate her genes – so that’s take care of I guess :)

By: Ketan

Ketan — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:21:09 +0000

I was nodding my head in agreement till I stumbled upon that point about your wanting to leave your genes. :D

Somehow, long back, say when I was 19/20 years old, I thought it silly to feel so possessive about minor variations in sequence of nucleotides. I haven’t outgrown that feeling I guess. It is possible I might feel ‘one with my genes’ someday, but as of now, I don’t. :)

And it is difficult to tell what makes a progeny more “mine” – ‘nurture’ or ‘nature’ (genes)? :)

Lastly, is there margin for *ahem* gender equality in this matter, that is, your wife also getting to propagate her family genes in this arrangement? After all, what Koel uses for propagation is a fertilized *ovum*. :P

By: bhagwad

bhagwad — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:31:58 +0000

I think I can avoid the guilt easily here. Since I’m sure that if it’s not my genes, then some other genes will be used, the kid is going to be born anyway and so I’m not responsible for another soul being born into the world. I might as well get some benefit out of this no? :)

By: Lakshmi Rajan

Lakshmi Rajan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 05:18:44 +0000

Completely agree with Pal. And since you (Bhagwad) mentioned you don’t want your child to forego its right to be born and compulsorily made to be born. You should not be sharing your gene and thereby partially responsible for another child to be brought into life in this as you mentioned bad world choked with putrid air.

By: Dongu

Dongu — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:54:29 +0000

Ha Haa

By: bhagwad

bhagwad — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:26:41 +0000

Oh, I completely agree with you. I’m quite shameless about it being an ego flattering exercise :) . The point I’m making is that since I’m not harming anyone and can actually end up helping people, why not flatter my ego a bit? Poor little ego…

By: Writerzblock

Writerzblock — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:22:00 +0000

I don’t understand WHY you want your genes to remain in this ‘big bad world’ after all. Why don’t you just let go, truly and completely?!! I voted for ‘it is not right to have anonymous children’. I guess if you see this practically, you are helping out people who need help, but I see this as a huge ego-flattering device, rather than a need to help the world!!! If you really want to help the world, why don’t you bring up a child? Inculcate all those virtues in the child? Bring him/her up in a beautiful manner, and really make a difference?

By: Dongu

Dongu — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:20:34 +0000

You may be impotent.

By: bhagwad

bhagwad — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:43:31 +0000

It certainly makes things convenient no? :D

By: Darshan Chande

Darshan Chande — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:49:24 +0000

Whoa! You are the first person I am seeing who has decided not to have children for the same reason I have decided the same thing! What’s more pleasant a surprise in your case is that you have a wife too who agrees with it. Great!