Donating your "Boys" for concert tickets.

[Marcus Wolfe]

Personally, I think the earth is already over populated. We do not need to increase population, we need to redistribute it.

[Lisnpuppy]

On the subject of not being able to stand it if you though your child was out there somewhere...

 

I really don't think me "think" the same way about pregnancy and such until they have a child of their own.

 

Women are trained from an early age (and probably through genetics somewhat) that to raise, love children....this is a good thing. Girls take take of younger siblings. They play with babydolls and are encouraged to nurture. Boys don't get the same training. Even when a woman is pregnant with their child...based on my personal experience...guys really dont get it. It doesn't grow inside them. They dont feel it move and kick and such. It wasn't until my daughter was about 6months old and was developing a personality that her father really got it. Now they are like peas and carrots and he loves her completely, but it just isn't the same for guys in general.

[Gamerbird]

I am not sure what I would do in a case like this. I am under the legal age anyway but thinking about it, it would make another family happy and you for helping and just for the general thing.

Although the feeling of knowing that somewhere out there, you have a possibility of a child would haunt me.

[Marcus Wolfe]

It's true, guys just don't get it.....the only thing I can compare it to is designing and building stuff.

 

For example, let's say a guy has to build something for his university degree. He first thinks of everything he wants it to be, then draws out a plan. He revises the plan so that it's better, then he starts building it. While he's building it, he may have to change the plan so that it works. He works on it everyday, and he can see the progress he makes clearly. When he's done, it's fully functional and he's very proud of it, probably wants to keep it for himself.

 

There's a difference, I suppose, between building something and growing something.

[hoots7]

It's so interesting that you guys can give something like that up so easily. Knowing that there could be a possibility that a part of me is out there would drive me crazy. The only thing I can compare it to would be donating one of my eggs. I would want to do my best to make sure that person has a healthy, safe, happy life. I have a feeling I'm comparing apples with oranges, right?

 

I guess you can't be too possessive over that kind of stuff, you gotta' keep the pipes clean :thumbsup: Keep a healthy prostate. :wink:

It's a good comparison at least for me, I would feel the same way & always wonder if I had another child out there somewhere.

I may do it for a friend (like some else did) but not for concert tickets (liked the stock comment).

[Vagrant0]

It's true, guys just don't get it.....the only thing I can compare it to is designing and building stuff.

 

For example, let's say a guy has to build something for his university degree. He first thinks of everything he wants it to be, then draws out a plan. He revises the plan so that it's better, then he starts building it. While he's building it, he may have to change the plan so that it works. He works on it everyday, and he can see the progress he makes clearly. When he's done, it's fully functional and he's very proud of it, probably wants to keep it for himself.

 

There's a difference, I suppose, between building something and growing something.

Yeah, except that isn't what's happening in this case. There is no commitment beyond the first moment. It's like making a comment like "Hey, you should proably stop smoking" to someone in passing. You will never see that person again, and chances are that your comment won't actually result in anything. Outside of those cases where someone dones for a specific couple, or group of couples, most of what is used either sits for months, dies off durring the freezing process, or fails to take even after artificial semination (the reason why they usually implant 6-7 eggs at once). It's not like you're there helping them get back to health or anything. It's not like you actually played any signigicant part in thier life. To use the project analogy, it's similar to making a mod request, or pointing someone in the right direction with their mod. Sure, you played a minor role in making it happen, but you really can't (and shouldn't) make claims to ownership over it. Of all the people I've helped around here over the last few years, I very rarely hear anything about what became of that mod, or that modder, and I really don't expect to. I helped, but it is their project, they are the ones who deserve most the credit, and the ownership of it.

 

If you're going to obsess over something as minor as that, you might as well be obsessing over everything you ever said to anyone, or wrote them?

[Marcus Wolfe]

Strange thing is, I think this whole 'donating sperm' thing is the only possible way I could pass on my genes.

 

See, my genes are great, but I know for a fact I can't be a good father. I come from a long line of bad fathers. And it's got nothing to do with genes and everything to do with how the kid is raised. My Dad says to me I'm the one who'll end this trend, but couldn't it have been him who did it instead? Anyhow, I figure if my child is raised by parents more nurturing than my father, he'll turn out ok.

 

Of course, it could be a genetic thing, my headstrongness a result of my breeding, the abusive style of parenting being the only way to bring up such a child. In that case, the kid would be so much worse.....