Why Procreate?

Question

Why do human procreate?
The action of introducing a life into this world is deplorable.
The moment the child is born, it is the begining of the end for it.
Why do it?

Wouldn't it be nice NOT to have known this dysfunctional world if given a choice?
They say ignorant is Bliss.

Yeah! you might say that this world has a lot to offer and beauty can be found in myriad places but, if you have no consciousneous, you would not be missing anything at all.

Why do some people still do it?

Why do the plankton do it just to have their millions of offsprings being scoop up by a whale as food?
If they just stop procreation, they would have done the would be next generation a great big favour.

Why do pigs do it as we all know how the story of a pig will always end.

Is it for human selfish reason of leaving a legacy so people can remember them after they are gone?

Why? Why?

Don't forget that in time to come, the sun will turn supernova and all life will cease to exist. Human kind will not exist forever. This will lead us to another favourite philosophical question: What is life all about.
Please consider the possibility that there's no meaning in life.

Answer 1

No human being ever procreates by will... it just happens! If procreation was left in the hands of human beings... it would have been chaos all over! The form of a human being is the highest manifest stage in cosmic life... yet, mounted with the power of discrimination if left unchecked it could create hell on Mother Earth!

Human beings operate both at plus and minus levels. Removing the dross within... One becomes a Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or prophet Mohammed! Prompted by wanton desires and materialistic riches... the same human being reduces to level of an animal! Keeping all in mind... God Almighty made progeny an extremely sensual art.

No matter what... all living beings including human beings would continue procreating until the end of time! We may want it or not... almost hundred percent human beings indulge in sex not for the sake of progeny but pleasure! For the mankind to exist... for the Cosmos to continue... the element of progeny... procreation had to be made immensely pleasurable!

Even if we desire... we cannot stop it! Even highly acclaimed Saints like Vishwamitra fell prey to form of a woman taking bath in extremely sensual circumstances in forlorn jungles (forests)! Acharya Rajneesh (nee Osho) mixed sex with spirituality. He failed. Sensuality is something meant to attract the opposite sex! Only then the existence of life on Mother Earth was possible!

For the cosmic system to continue... for the mankind to continue... for all living beings to continue living... God Almighty made sensuality an essential part of life... not dependent upon the whims and fancies of all living beings including humans. The existence of life on Mother Earth is meant for the soul atman within.

To remove the dross within... every soul atman manifests a body to work out its karma. This is the goal of human life and all living beings! More on Progeny and God - http://www.godrealized.org/why_god_made_this_world.html

Answer 2

You suggest that life is a torment, dysfunctional, and painful. But if you give people the choice between dying today and dying later, almost all of them choose 'later'. This suggests that no matter what the drawbacks of the world are, there are enough positives to easily counterbalance it.

And if life has a positive value, then giving life to someone else is a GIFT, not a CURSE.

As for the future... well, nobody can honestly say that they know all that it will bring. Keep in mind that probably 90% of the things you see around you are produced with technology that simply didn't exist even a century ago. Who knows what we'll be capable of in a billion years? Maybe we'll survive just fine in empty space. Maybe we'll be able to create new universes when this one dies. I'm sure cavemen were depressed because they were eaten a lot by sabertooth tigers. Now sabertooth tigers don't exist.

You may feel differently, I suppose (I note that you ARE alive, however... so your gloomy perspective is at the least inaccurate and possibly outright hypocritical). Even if you do, it is not a veiw that most share. Sorry, mate.

Answer 3

I don't remember which philosopher said this, maybe Plato, or Socrate. What was said is that a person dying will feel, so much better about his death because he knows that the world will go on after him for a long time and that the species will continue to be alive and so on...
Imagine if you are the last of the last generation, a death such as that would be a very sad death and I imagine that that person's life would have been awful, because all the while he is aware of the impending doom of his species and that there is no chance.
When people don't procreate there is a sort of hopelessness in the world, or wherever. Because that means that your species is dying out. It's as if everybody who has died before in any wars, or conflicts of any kind to make a better world would have also died for absolutely nothing.
If the human species stops procreating then there would be no use to do anything such as develop and better ourselves, make better communities etc... because future generations won't always be around to enjoy it and at one point everyone will have just gone, but the world will be here. All development useless, all the effort put in would have been useless. That's my opinion anyway.

Answer 4

I could say I surely have in no way seen Buddism twisted in somewhat this way before. If existence is suffering, we are to income from the conflict and for this reason become enlightened. This has no longer something to do with procreation that is purely one view on existence because it stands interior the chain of reincarnation and enlightenment. Why procreate? All 3 of my little ones have been born out of affection, raised in love, and if I surely have completed my activity properly will circulate out into the worldwide and attempt as I could make it a extra useful place, to circulate away it extra useful than once you got here into it.

Answer 5

Every living thing has an urge to procreate, whether it be bacteria, humans, mammals, plants etc. Living things are designed that way, whether they want to or not, and whether or not it will lead to their destruction. For example, look at insects and the numbers who procreate only to be killed by their mate. The ultimate aim is the survival of the species - even if the survival is what ultimately kills everything off.

Answer 6

I've come to the belief that we follow the genetic code to reproduce. By passing on genes of ourselves, we become essentially an immortal race. There may not be a "why"...that question might just be an illusion to expect a result - but there may not be a reason.

Answer 7

Hi, how you doin' these days old Nick? Trying to encourage the human race to turn all nihilistic, now is it?
Sorry old man but we're all way too busy finding new ways to do it to stop and worry about why we do it.
Can't stop to chat just now, just had a new idea. Bye.

Answer 8

Mammals, insects and other types of Animals are all part of the food chain, Mother Nature has giving us this gift, thus, we should be glad of it, and not part of a food chain!

Answer 9

Continuation of live is so deeply bred into our genes. We're here to continue our species. That's the ONLY reason we're alive.

The real question isn't, "Why procreate?"

The real question is, "How much more procreation can I have with random mates in the next few years?"

Answer 10

Its fun trying to make them! Maybe we are all accidents as the result of a few moments pleasure.