It's a biological drive, at least until you're past the age of fertility. Whether you consciously think about carrying on your genetic line, it's baked into the hardware.
It was interesting of you to make the remark considering it’d clearly be unpopular, but agree with others, don’t really care about my genetic legacy. Am going to be dead so it’s meaningless to me.
And actually, a non-genetic child might be nice, especially if you get one at the right age. You don’t have the intense burden of raising a baby or when they’re a young child, but still get to the joy of raising a child (as long as they like you, which is of course the biggest downside. Probably less of a tendency for them to attach strongly to you).
International adoption is actually extremely controversial and full of abuse. Many countries have straight up banned it and basically declared that the folks who want to adopt outside of their borders are by-in-large "creepy weirdos"
It’s funny. Normally saying that something is wrong because it got downvoted and flagged would be a fallacy. You’ve managed to make it a valid argument.
