It absolutely is central to life, and we are the only species that can choose whether or not to bear children. Animals of other species who are unable to reproduce for any reason die and don't reproduce whatever issues caused them to be unable to bear offspring in the first place.
Which brings me around to another thing I often find myself mulling over... that our technology makes it so that we can pass on defective genes, thus weakening the human gene pool in general.
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Date: 2015-03-11 04:46 pm (UTC)Which brings me around to another thing I often find myself mulling over... that our technology makes it so that we can pass on defective genes, thus weakening the human gene pool in general.