Status Updates From Every Cradle is a Grave: Re...

Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.

While the economic and well-being costs of having children are high, most of the "cost" of existence is borne by the children themselves, not by the parents in raising them. Parenting involves not just volunteering for the job of parent, but volunteering innocent children for the job of being people.

DNFing this for being dry as Death Valley. It's a well-constructed argument, but that's just not enough when there are similar, better written books out there.