[...and on that refreshingly positive note, I think we're done here. Moving on! - Ed.]

So we can’t contribute to society or make the world a better place without having babies?

This whole thing has escalated into something it probably was never intended to be. I doubt the first people to post the “nuffer” comments really believe all the things you people claim they do.

People who want children and are SO INCREDIBLY NASTY (calling others mentally ill, idiots, etc.just for expressing an opinion) worry me a lot. Their poor kids are going to have a long tough row to hoe.

At least my friends still in the therapy biz will have job security.

But I think maybe one concern is that the powers-that-be will also be bitten by the baby bug that seems to be sweeping the nation and Cute Overload will go from being 99% cute animals to a way higher percentage of babies, and we don’t want that. I don’t care for the picture but I’m not going to say I HATE it. I just don’t want to see babies on this site any more frequently.

But I absolutely loved this post b/c in my opinion it was cuter, and NTMTOM had one really great buildup.

And I found that reading NTMTOM’s post made me feel a lot more amused at having witnessed the pah-sickie incident, because it made me feel like I could read a lot more humor than the first few “baby hate” posts – that these people were deliberately being either sarcastic, or just being silly.

This is mostly irrelevant, but there are two xkcd comics that I think about on this incident:

Cat Proximity (which was posted on CO some months ago): http://xkcd.com/231/
- People become really really silly the more exposed they are to cute things. Maybe the “baby haters” are just suffering from overexposure.

The other, more relevant, is called troll slayer: http://xkcd.com/591/

I also feel like cornutt’s post brought up some valid points. But hey, I’m glad NTMTOM, Meg, and Teho are having fun at everyone’s expense. I’m sure they deserve a good night of popcorn after all the hard work they do to bring us this site. =)

(P.S. no sarcasm in those last two sentences. Given how dark the comments turned after the first hundred or so, it might be worth saying that explicitly)

DO NOT call me a breeder, EVER. I might want to have children one day, when I feel I am old enough, responsible enough and financially stable. If no-one had children, society would end. We would just all get old, and die, and then the cockroaches would take over.

I agree that overpopulation is raping the earth, there are FAR too many human beings on this planet.

But hang on, if the human purpose is to contribute to society, and procreate, and try and make the world a better place, but yet YOU don’t want to do those things, then maybe there isn’t a place for YOU in this world!

This baby, who is GORGEOUS and ADORABLE, could grow up to cure cancer, or do any number of amazing things.

Plus you were a baby once too, you didn’t come into this world fuly grown and full of hate, once you were tiny, and cute, and vunerable too.

You are expecting us to listen to and respect your opinion, but are not granting others the same. In posting a picture of a baby, your human rights have not been infringed, no-one posted any views that contradict your right not to have children, and you easily could have scrolled past and ignored the picture.

Some people are very very silly indeed!