What's the point in having children?

[Lucca]

Lonely_Dolphin said:

LuccaCardoso1 said:
We (as well as pretty much any living being) are “programmed” to sustain our species. It's just natural that people feel the urge to have children and pass on their DNA. It's not egotistical, it's just what living beings do. Why do you think we feel pleasure during sex? Because that incentivizes that practice, increasing the change of pregnancy. Basically the whole point of our existence before civilization was to have kids.

Sure most humans wanna have sex, I'm no different there, but we're not animals, we know how to have the pleasure without the risk (well some of us). Therefore when we have kids, it's deliberately because we want kids (generally), not as a side effect of sex.

In fact, we are animals. That's just basic biology.

We know how to have sex without having kids, but we still have that instinct to reproduce and keep the species alive. The whole process of having kids releases a lot of hormones that generate happiness and pleasure. To have kids is instinctive.

By the way, the idea that "when we have kids, it's deliberately because we want kids" ignores a massive portion of the world's population that either doesn't have a choice or doesn't have the resources to prevent pregnancy. You should probably research about other countries and cultures before making such a bold statement about the state of the human species as a whole.