[FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

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Marcus,

 

People have kids because they have hopes; people with more fears than hopes, probably don’t have kids.  

 

On the other hand, there’s what my father said when, I, at the age of 40, observed that I appeared to have been … a “caboose”.  “Son,” he said, as if he had been planning what to say for 40 years.  “I never planned to have a child; I never had a child I didn’t love.”

 

I suppose you might say that people have kids because … you know…. sex, and they love kids because they have them. 

 

Not sure reason has a lot do with it.  But if you want to be entirely rational, the shadow-of-the-future argument dictates that nobody should ever have children because sometime in the future there will be a generation in which everybody dies.  Are you sure you want to be THAT rational?  

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

 

Ed writes:

 

“For those of us concerned with economic development is a state which leads in childhood poverty, the labs are not an asset, largely because of precisely the points we agree on.”

 

Why people have kids when then have no means to support them continues to baffle me.

Los Alamos was chosen for Manhattan project because it remote and inaccessible. 

 

Marcus

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