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Intellectually, I'm totally with you, Caits. Emotionally, I could never take that stance if my life depending on it. Sometimes I feel like I need children -- not right now, but in the future, need to feel a life growing inside me, need to birth, need to nurture. It sounds like a hormonal nightmare, but maybe it's my gift. I go around and around and around feeling guilty for not wanting to adopt, but I think that different people have different gifts. If yours is for adoption or not having children or whatever, more power to you! If my "weakness" is contributing more to the planet's overpopulation, then that's a "sin" I'll have to deal with, and, hey, maybe I'll get one less jewel in my crown in Heaven because of it, but it's not something I'm going to worry too much about.

At least, that's my decision for now. I'm only 18 and not in a position to be a parent, anyway, but I always look to the future. I have trouble living now; I'm always living in the future. I suck that way.

I guess I know you quite well, though, because I kind of wondered whether you'd take the stevia thing opposite than how I was taking it, and think it was a good thing to impare reproductivity! Still, would it be a good thing if all that stevia impared was, like, the development of a baby's intelligence, but the child was still conceived and born? I'd opt out of potentially hazardous gambles and instead educate people, put some laws into effect, not let parents have 12 children anymore...whatever.

I'm really playing devil's advocate here. I'm in a nasty mood and feeling bitchy. Excuse me if I've said anything offensive!