Shooting Blanks - Blog March 28, 2006

Geoffrey Hamilton

Blog, March 28, 2006

60 minutes aired a piece on anonymous sperm donations and the extended families that have been created when parents and offspring voluntarily hook up as siblings and genetic fathers. All this was given a peachy-keen air as though the selling of sperm to needlessly create life doesn't amount to just another revival of slavery. But what was astonishing is the accuracy of one sperm seller, a doctor, in describing his own actions when he sold up to a hundred children into existence: he said, "I don't have to be able to predict the future exactly to be willing to wade into it." This sentiment is true of all and any life. That's how the game gene makes us all think, even if it's pure stupidly to think so. But there is much more to life. This purportedly 'caring' doctor who calls himself "quite a hunk” is missing the big picture, there's no reason to live. Not only is there a lack of absolute reasons, but one cannot even invent relative or stupid reasons before existence. This guy just wanted kids like a rabbit wants to shit.

Why must this doctor insist on having no thought for his children? He didn't even seriously consider his actions as fathering. He was selling sperm for seven years at 50 dollars a squirt. That's it. That's the significance of a life to him and his kind. But it's not much different for your average fathers. These regular guys just say things like they want immortality, or they just reason with an 'oops'.

Mothers are no better. They claim their clock is ticking, or they just want 'something' of their own, and use any means necessary to do it and they have not the faintest clue as to why they do. Wasting money and emotions on a game they never needed to play is a standard modus operandi.

The minds of greatest quality throughout history are no better then the dullest and some I admire, like Shake-speare, have been shooting blanks when it comes to reasons for their encouragement of all reproduction. Now sperm donations by people like doctors once again not only show evolution to be a farce, but also shows that increasing general stupidity is the must-have ingredient for the continuation of life.

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