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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Marcus,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>People have kids because they have hopes; people with more fears than hopes, probably don’t have kids. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suppose you might say that people have kids because … you know…. sex, and they love kids because they have them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marcus Daniels<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ed writes:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“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.”<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Why people have kids when then have no means to support them continues to baffle me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Los Alamos was chosen for Manhattan project because it remote and inaccessible. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marcus<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>