[lacampbell]

Why do you feel entitled to foist your own or other peoples problems onto strangers?

[dang]

Would you please not post uncivilly to HN? Personal abrasiveness, which this comment veers into, is something to be avoided.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14128052 and marked it off-topic.

[c22]

Why do you assume kids are problems to begin with? I have met hundreds of kids during my adult life and the highest any of them has risen to for me is minor annoyance. I've had more trouble from my cars.

[lacampbell]

I'm not the one that used "problem" to describe kids, btw. FWIW I quite like kids. But saying strangers kids are my responsibility because of "society" is not true at all.

[jackvalentine]

Kids are a part of society, and society has a stake in what kind of adult they become.

In the same way drug addicts are society's problem, or unemployed people are society's problem, or sociopathic second generation rich never-worked-a-day drunk drivers are society's problem.

This isn't to say that you'll be conscripted in to a psudo-parent role against your will, but they are your responsibility as a member of society in a very abstract way.

[lacampbell]

In that case, I revoke my membership to society. I have my own problems.

[jackvalentine]

You can do so by moving out in to the middle of nowhere and becoming a self-sufficient hermit.

Anything less and sorry, but you're a part of society.

[lacampbell]

who are you to tell an individual what responsibilities they have, and to try and make outcasts of people who don't want them?

I don't have to move anywhere to absolve myself of the responsibility to strangers.