Will you spend your kids inheritance?

[loinburger]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Environmentalists seek to improve the well-being of the entire world.

I don't recall Che saying the decision was for his own benefit.

If Che were more concerned about the entire world than about his own well-being, then he'd be more concerned about reducing his non-hypothetical impact on the environment and less concerned about reducing the hypothetical impact of 3rd world children upon the environment.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by MRT144
my children will not recieve inheritance if they dont work for it with their own labor.

Um, there's really only one way for kids to work for an inhetitance with their own labor.

My advice: if your kids ask you who the "Menendez brothers" were -- don't tell them.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by notyoueither
They would be stuck in the line for a very long time to get an infant, if they ever did get one. Competition is fierce, or so I am led to beleive.

That doesn't drive at Che's point -- it's not a question of convenience for the adopting couple, it's a question of efficiency for the entire world. It would be more energy efficient for the foreign infant to die than for an American to adopt the foreign infant and waste energy on him/her. A dead infant requires less energy than a live-and-westernized infant.

[Kuciwalker]

IOW, dead babies ftw

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by notyoueither


How would an education fund for the grandkid lead to worse behaviour in the child?

In the US, at least right now, education is pretty close to free for kids of poor people, if they want it. They might owe some very low interest loans afterwards (and have to do some workstudy while in school), but those are no real hardship.

This doesn't mean any school, I had to have scholarships to go to my school. But to go to a stateschool, in your state (and they are generally at least decent), you can get the financing to do, even without scholarships, with not too much hardship.

Highschools and before is another matter.

Jon Miller

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by loinburger

If Che were more concerned about the entire world than about his own well-being, then he'd be more concerned about reducing his non-hypothetical impact on the environment and less concerned about reducing the hypothetical impact of 3rd world children upon the environment.

Bringing someone here from the 3rd world for his own selfish reasons of needing to be a parent of an infant would not be going in the right direction, by this POV.

And when did Che sell his bike and buy an SUV?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by loinburger

That doesn't drive at Che's point -- it's not a question of convenience for the adopting couple, it's a question of efficiency for the entire world. It would be more energy efficient for the foreign infant to die than for an American to adopt the foreign infant and waste energy on him/her. A dead infant requires less energy than a live-and-westernized infant.

The child in the 3rd world isn't destined to die by the decision to adopt it or not.

The question is bigger.

Is it a good thing to encourage more people to move from places with low resource impacts to places with high resource consumption.

An environmentalist might be right to oppose immigration, including adoption, on that basis.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


In the US, at least right now, education is pretty close to free for kids of poor people, if they want it. They might owe some very low interest loans afterwards (and have to do some workstudy while in school), but those are no real hardship.

This doesn't mean any school, I had to have scholarships to go to my school. But to go to a stateschool, in your state (and they are generally at least decent), you can get the financing to do, even without scholarships, with not too much hardship.

Highschools and before is another matter.

Jon Miller

So then you won't need to help your own kids after highschool, right?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I don't believe in inheritence, which doesn't mean I'll turn it down if it comes my way.

Hypocrite.

[Kontiki]

It would depend entirely on how much money I amass (or don't amass). I won't go out of my way to live like a miser in retirement just to leave money to my kids (who may never actually exist), but I'd have no qualms about leaving them money should it be available.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Um, there's really only one way for kids to work for an inhetitance with their own labor.

My advice: if your kids ask you who the "Menendez brothers" were -- don't tell them.

i meant they have to show that theyve done something with themselves to earn it.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by notyoueither


So then you won't need to help your own kids after highschool, right?

I included college when I said that parents should support their children. I don't plan on being poor (although I am right now). Somewhat that is based upon the US government, they give out aid based upon the assumption that parents will help if they can.

peace,
Jon Miller

[Arrian]

It is not yet decided whether or not I will be having any children.

If I do, I will certainly leave them something. Exactly what depends on a whole lot of stuff. I would hope to be able to provide a college education for them, which is a big enough chunk of change right there to keep me saving for a while.

My parents paid my college tuition in full, bought me my first car, and are going to (eventually - hopefully not for quite some time) leave me a bundle. In all of that I've been extremely lucky. I would hope to be able to accomplish at least *some* of that for my kid.

-Arrian

[Lancer]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Zkribb is correct.

Such bizarre reasoning! We can't bring them over here because then they might actually have enough for once and therefore use more of the world. I understand what you're trying to say Che, but don't agree. This world is going to go into a nose dive one of these days because there are too many people. If I can bring a few out of the third world to the land of plenty I will.

We americans are many of us HUGE. In the Phils Dolores and I brought a cake to elementary school for a nephew's birthday. Those kids went wild over it, like a feeding frenzy. Many were sent to school hungry...while here we have so many people who have had way too much.

Enormous consumers we are, we can spare a bit to change lives. Remember Che, you are only here in the land of plenty as an accident of birth...

[Alexander's Horse]

I'd rather have my parents, who are both still alive and celebrating 50 years of marriage this year, than an inheritance.

I told my dad think about the grandchildren, particularly their education, not us. But basically use your money to make yourselves comfortable. You earned it.

We'll probably get something eventually but I don't even want to think about that day.