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The idea of those ancestors reproducing is as touching as they were, frankly, untouchable.
Creating gelding herds and preventing them from reproducing is managing them toward extinction".
In Benatar's view, reproducing is intrinsically cruel and irresponsible — not just because a horrible fate can befall anyone, but because life itself is "permeated by badness".
Simply reproducing is not the distinctive feature here.
But here's the thing: reproducing is inherently a selfish act.
Speaking as someone who has specifically chosen that course and who is grateful to have lived in an age where that choice could be exercised, it is quite clear to me that the word 'childless' is loaded with assumptions; that reproducing is the norm, something to which everyone aspires, and that to be without children is clearly to have failed.
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In biological terms, living and reproducing are essentially one and the same.
The encylopedic context in which the image was reproduced is clinical, not titillating.
The above image of Emily Brontë – endlessly reproduced – is less a portrait, more an icon.
The thing in "One Flat Thing, reproduced" is presumably one table multiplied by 20.
He added that treatment to ensure the GM salmon cannot reproduce is not always effective.
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