I enjoy reading about this topic because it has been a thorn in my side for as long as I can remember. Up until this past year, I felt that I was alone in my lines of thinking regarding it. I have tons of questions to people who either blindly parrot, "Our Kyds are our only hope", and like phrases, or outright make a public declaration such as, "Our chyldren and grandchyldren are our future!", or the future of mankind, etc.......Of course, along with those questions I have had living inside my head for years, I also harbor some comments which would likely be considered "hateful", that I would like to share. I hope I have the opportunity and courage to say any or all of these one day and would take delight in any one of you doing the same.
Kim's sample fantasy conversation:
Mrs Breederson: Our Chyyyldrennnn are our only hope!
Kim: Really, in what way do you mean?
Mrs Breederson: Why, for our future!
Kim: Whose future do you mean when you say "our"?
Mrs Breederson; EVERYONE'S future, of course!
Kim:The way I see it, since most kyds are simply average at best and the baybee in your stroller COULD turn out to be a serial killer or more than likely a garden variety criminal, why would you want to condemn "everyone's" future by adding more potential criminals and/or deadbeats to the mix?
Mrs Breederson: That's a negative way to look at it, MY brat could end up being the doctor who saves your life or the one who cures cancer, or the policeman who stops you from being raped!
Kim: You DO realize how unlikely that is, don't you? He could just as easily be a crack addict, an armed robber, and CAUSE cancer and untimely deaths with his makeshift meth lab and sales to OTHER peoples' kyds. It's highly unlikely that your kyd will turn out to do anything extraordinary and if he does anything at all, it will likely be self serving and unimportant to mankind as a whole.
Mrs Breederson: (calling on God)That won't happen with MY chyld because I am a Christian and raise my chyld right. God won't let that happen.
Kim: I am interested to know what exactly it is about you which makes you feel that you and your kyd are uniquely immune from the effects of war, famine, illness,crime, and poverty. What exactly makes you and your kyd, "special"? Even the son of God and his mother Mary were not immune from human persecution, suffering, and even murder, so what makes YOU and YOUR kyd any type of "hope"?
Mrs Breederson: (pulling away and getting defensive) YOU just don't understand because youuuuu don't have any chyldren!
Kim: I see, perhaps you are right. (here's where I "redirect" the dummy) I am really interested in your concept. When did you first think that chyldren were the "hope" of EVERYONE'S future?
Mrs Breederson: I have ALWAYS known, since I was a chyld myself.
Kim: So, you mean before you had any chyldren you "knew" this, right?
Mrs Breederson: Yes, always.
Kim: So, you are mistaken in that people can't form an opinion about this subject unless they have given birth then? I mean since YOU had an opinion before YOU had kyds, right?
Mrs Breederson (all confused and annoyed) You are twisting this all around
Kim:No, I see it rather clearly. If I had shared your opinion that "kyds are our future", then it would have made NO difference if I was a mother, a celibate priest, a surrogate mother of ten kyds, OR completely sterile and "anti" child. However, since I have an opposing view to yours, then it's only because I have no children that I am incorrect, correct?
It would be at this point, since I called her out, that one of two things would likely happen. 1) Mrs Breederson would retreat as she offered up blessings for me to "understand" and my soul would perhaps get a prayer 2)Other Breedersons would join in and attempt to shame me into submission with infinite bingos, which would have to be fought off with a sword and shield. If other peoples' kyds are MY future, then I don't have much to look forward to, that's for sure. Why are these people so afraid of making and shaping their OWN futures? Do they not ever stop and think that ALL generations before them have said the exact same thing, and look where it got us? I am a bit leary of the "chyldren are our only hope for the future," comments because I see a huge dumbing down of society, much like the movie, Idiocracy. If generations prior couldn't make the world crimefree, famine free, cancer free, etc.....What in the HELL makes them think this next batch of dummies can do any better?
One other question I would like to ask of them when thay say that is, "When you say that kyds are our "hope", what do you mean by that?". I can think of lots more ways to debunk that breeder theory as well. How can a retard kyd be any "hope" to anyone? How can a criminal who rapes children be considered a "hope"? How can a crack addict be any "hope" to the world? How can a kyd who strikes it rich and spends his fortune on himself be of any hope to society? How can a mass shooter who commits suicide after be considered a "hope"? How exactly does a welfare whore who has 4,5,6 or more kyds who become gangsters be of any hope to anyone? I think that these idiots are grasping at straws with their "hope" wishes looming heavily over the heads of mostly a worthless lot of brats. The only "hope" that I have is that I come into contact with as few of them as possible in MY future that ***I**** made and continue to make for myself.