Poll: Would you trade the ability to have children for immortality?

[qeinar]

No, I'd like children one day and I don't want to live forever plus if many people took this immortality pill it would destroy society. Think of all the benefits that are brought in by each new generation, less prejudiced and better adapted for the world they are born in, a world of immortals would be terribly boring as it would be completely static and nothing would ever change.

Also for those who are saying they would adopt, orphans aren't an unlimited supply, there may sadly be a massive surplus of them now but if suddenly a large section of the population becomes voluntarily sterile then those orphans are going to be snapped up pretty quickly and there won't many more afterwards due the said sterility.

well that's the thing, not everyone would be immortal. Although the immortal people would probably after a while become a lot smarter than normal people. Also you would probably rid yourself of prejudice after living a couple hundred years, you would also adapt to new suroundings since you'd also get incredibly smart. (you only really get smart if you work for it though, but you learn a ton just by living, and you'd probably change jobs a lot since staying in the same job for 100 years would be boring..)

 

[Mudze]

"Would you trade your ability to have kids"

Sold.

 

[De Ronneman]

I am very good with kids, but can't stand them for longer than 2 hours at a time.

I'd rather be sure I get to play Virtual Reality Super Mario.

 

[Wuggy]

No, but not because I want to have children. I'm not planning on it as of now.

The thing is that I don't want immortality. I could take a veeeery long age, but not living forever.

 

[everfreeDragon]

Hell yes!
I don't hate kids but I doubt my abilities as a father, I just don't see myself being a good one. Getting to learn everything and become amazing at everything or proving myself as a bad father is a simple choice.

Once I become smart and awesome enough I'd probably live like the Doctor without the time travel, unless in my infinitely increasing wisdom I unlock the secrets of time travel of course.

 

[redisforever]

Yes. I hate children. A lot. Although, I won't do it unless my dog is immortal too.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Having an infinite lifespan with the same restrictions as before simply means that I am guaranteed to die in a traumatic and painful manner. If you think anyone 20 years younger than yourself is a gigantic intolerable scumbag (like say, for sake of example children) then you should start to consider how you would view people 800 years older than you.

I'd rather have one century well done than a hundred centuries of boredom, anger and eventually some horribly painful and traumatic end, having witnessed everyone I cared for ending in an equally disturbing manner long ago, or dying with the knowledge that they'll snuff it the same way.

Plus if you trade children for immortality you'll be an immortal like in that Direct-to-SyFy Channel Highlander film.

 

[Qitz]

No. It'd be too damn boring. Sure, at first it'd be fun but after a few thousand years you'd be bored outta your fucking skull.

Sure, immortality would be fun playing the Hero or Villain, if you mean 100% un-killable immortality and not just you can't die from age, but after a couple of centuries you'd be so bored having see all the shit before.

Course, if I had the option to off myself when I wanted I may reconsider, just to see what the worlds like in the year 3,000. Probably just as fucked up as now.

 

[karoliso]

Sounds like an equal trade. After all the point of having an offspring in essence IS to live forever.

 

[sage42]

Maybe after I have kids but then that would suck outliving both my spouse and my kids, so no I wouldn't.

 

[Freedon Nad]

Something Awful once ran a story like this, about a war that was fought between the Angels, who were really into immortality-as-children and the Unfolders, who were into immortality-as-immortality. Both Angels and Unfolders were humans from the future, fighting for their philosophies. The US, of course, was allied with Angels. And they won. A pitty, since Unfolders have a better idea and are some sort of, well, unfolding multidimensional beings or some such.

 

[spartan231490]

Immortality is a curse. I wouldn't want it for anything, and there's no way in hell I would sacrifice something to get it.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Oh yes, absoluetly.
I am in no hurry what so ever to find a wife, or to someone in my mindset, a ball and chain, and settle down with a kid. Now don't get me wrong, I would still want to have sex but I guess I could always be sterilized...or wear a condom.

Immortality FTW!

 

[interspark]

you can't live forever, even the most perfect immortality will fade or even become a curse when the universe dies, by post-poning death you only make it worse, and bearing children is one of the few animal desires we have left, the primary goal in life if you will. or, from a less sciecy viewpoint "awwwww! look how cure they are wicklltysnlkjfsnlue"

 

[Auron225]

I would trade the ability to have children for mortality. Immortality would suck beyond belief.

EDIT: For the record, I do want children in time.

 

[darkman80723]

Absolutely. I cant stand kids anyway and if I were to ever change my mind I could always adopt.