Yes, sometimes you lose sleep, you worry and certainly in the future we will have our fights. . . . I would have missed my life. As long as one considers higher human achievement something that humans do with the faculties that set them apart from other creatures, having children is not the height of human achievement. It seems quite natural that we prefer the paths we are on to those others are on. Please, if you can, just raise them to be open-minded, courageous, compassionate and just, and you will have done the world a favour.
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