Most Children are parasites

First, I will tackle the argument I was slightly offended at: I believe you mean altruists, but that's neither here nor there. I see those commercials a few hundred times a month also. Please don't bring up the emotional arguments in this debate like "If I only had some money I would give it to charity." We don't need to play the emotional card. I don't play the emotion card. Ever. I will explain the reason why I made that comment at the end of the debate as agreed upon by myself and my opponent. "If a person chooses not to have a child, that isn't depriving anyone of a benefit/right. The child doesn't exist at the moment. Besides, if someone is nice to another, then it creates a good feeling inside, which is a benefit. This benefit is coming from the child, it doesn't matter if it was directly or indirectly." Actually, the child doesn't give the person any "good feeling", the person gives it to themselves. The feeling is the reaction of chemicals in the persons brain, not from any of the child's actions, and if they don't give birth to the child they are still depriving it of life, as it would still exist as an egg/sperm pin the parents' body. You also have to give evidence of a "good feeling" in people when they do something nice. Now onto other things: "What happened before doesn't matter. What matters is that it's helping the adult at the moment, even if something bad was caused by the child to offset it. If you were to shoot someone and then call an ambulance? Despite the fact that it's a funny situation, that's blowing this way out of proportion." What happened before must be considered because it is directly responsible for making the child put the toy away. They do it all the time in trials, it's what differentiates "murder in the first degree" and "murder in the second degree", it also is what makes self-defence a viable defence. This leads me to the next argument, I may have used a different scenario, but the principle is the same. "I'll give a more closely related situation. I throw a party with my parent's permission, and my friends leave trash around the house. I may have indirectly caused the trash to be scattered on the ground by inviting these people over, but if I clean the house afterwards it's still a good deed (helpful). This is more closely related because both situations involve leaving junk around the house, but later cleaning it up." This may be closely related, but it doesn't work because you didn't make the mess, your friends did. "What I did for chores doesn't matter. I'm surprised you would bring something (not that groundbreaking people) that happened a few years ago up in a debate. Please leave personal discussions out of the debate, as Pro and Con are both adolescents and are not the majority of children." I used you because I see you as a pretty normal kid, therefore representative of the whole. And I'm not an adolescent, I'm eighteen, just look at my profile. "Please give me some proof that the majority of children rarely use learned skills. You are Pro, therefore you have the burden of proof." First, it is not "learned skills" that matter, it is discipline. Second, all the proof I have is anecdotal(definition: based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation: anecdotal evidence. from dictionary.com), none of the children I know have the least bit of discipline(and I know quite a few).