Sadly the clickbait economy is thriving quite well. I have to sadly wonder in this day and age if that was even a legitimate person who wrote that. It likely could have just been AI to generate some controversy just like this post. Assholes succeeded in their subversion lol. 

I get annoyed with the body positivity movement, it’s rooted in the destruction of society at the end of the day, and one that is fomented with profit for companies in mind more than anything else. We need to get out of the ridiculous paradigm we are in, and get past these foolish concepts. 

The way entitled people and people who want to damage the cursor of life, No wonder cult like islam tend to break these rules and try to overthrow such utopian ideological cultures. That book author if ever lived in islamic neighborhood would get slaughtered for such extreme genetic views. I know plenty of people in islam who marry in odd age combo. And noticed that nobody from the secular world has power or even guts to point fingers at them. 

I used to lecture people who are overweight and have BMI issues but then despite being fit and healthy, I had blood pressure due to stress, so I stopped meddling in the lives of people, in short nature and universe has strong way of teaching us that.

That's why we need to celebrate progressive content that motivates people to take action and increase effective public discourse -- like your writing. I definitely find myself falling into the trap of wanting to learn more before taking action, thinking that I need all the information before making my commitment to trying to do better. When instead, it would be more beneficial to just get started trying something, anything, to make a positive change and if it doesn't work, then going back to do more learning to try something new. Too much passive, not enough active!

You hit upon some excellent points in this post. However, I still retain some hope, and here's the reason: in the background of this loud nonsense, there are innovators out there, hard at work crafting our future. They're not loud, but they are busy creating and building. We're living in a time when innovation is moving as fast as ever, and every generation brings a new reality at an ever-increasing pace.

Olden times did not have enough resources - or even educated people - for this to happen. There were few innovators building the future at that time. We're living in an era wherein people can and do take advantage of our resources to make things better. In older days, a tiny minority of people could ever create innovations - now, as well, a tiny amount can do so, but: we have more people, and more access to allow this to happen.

Let the majority do as they will - there's frankly not a great deal that we, as individuals, or even as small groups can do to change this. However, we must encourage the innovators to continue their paths of changing the world.

Hello my friend! 😊

You've done it again, perfectly stated, especially loved the part where you said, "People are idiots. All people. I'm an idiot too.", because it's true, we're all idiots at some point, even the smartest of the smart have a slap their forehead moment once in a while, even if they don't realize it when it happens. 😊

We have become a society of "me" instead of a community of human beings that helped each other out when needed, but I think we need to go back to helping our neighbours/communities, build them back up, replace the broken system we've got now, because it isn't going to get better, just more broken, unfortunately, and a lot of people still don't see it as a problem. That's what blows my mind the most, those that don't see any issues with what's going on in the world right now. Some people are clueless or just don't care, but others are trying to make things worse and worse, so its up to us to spread positivity around to counter their negativity. This is just my opinion, of course, but hopefully, there are enough of us that still believe in being helpful, kind, using manners and being polite when meeting new people, folks that want to build people up rather than rip others down. 😊

Well this cup of tea is gone, time to have my second before getting my day started. I'll chat with you again soon. 😊

God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! 😊

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Nobody can really control what happens but I do think we are responsible for what happens to us. I live in the US and I know the way that most of us live is unhealthy. There are times when I grab things outside because I feel tired to cook. The entire body positivity movement just sounds like a ton of bs though.

I appreciate your article. I concur that it is incorrect to refer to older men bearing children as "gross." It frequently happens that some men prefer to marry only when they can adequately provide for a family because, in the traditional sense, men are viewed as the providers for their families. I don't see that as necessarily bad.

Pacino could drop dead before that kid's first birthday; we still know the kid'll be provided for, for life. No cooking their own dinner because their single mum is working a second job to get by. **Don't have kids you can't support** is great advice, and absolutely not applicable here.

This is quite a controversial topic, even if, the andropause sometimes may occur very very late.

Until a kid is desired with love, I think that it can be looked after. Anyway, nature tells us that there are some natural boundaries, where parents are also required to be fit and reactive for kids to be grown up. 

So a careful balance (avoiding selfish attitude) must be pursued 

Nobody is in control of death is an inevitable event some of us leave before others a little later but the final destiny can not be avoided, in something you are right we are responsible for many of the situations that happen to us.

I long ago decided *it’s none of my damn business* if other people do or do not have children.

Life is too short to spend time worrying about what other people do with their naughty bits.

Mate, I loved this post - probably because you are incensed and passionate enough to respond to that inane, shallow opinion so intelligently. And yes, it must trigger you as a Dad too, given how you know how easily that could be taken away if you die. 

>  I also believe that the more we consume, the less creative we become, as we start to replicate, rather than innovate. Our brains shut down their imaginative side and instead take the easy path, amplifying the information of others.

Agreed. No one wants to look deep and no one seems to have the ability to interrogate, investigate, criticise - they'd rather just share and spout bullshit without thinking it through.

Of COURSE it'd be easier to neuter paedophiles or take obese children away or whatever extreme solution people have to poor parenting or just poor human behaviour, but how about we work a bit harder to fix the issues and problems behind this instead of encourage shallow, unhelpful, kneejerk responses in a world that has had enough of those? 

Maybe I shouldn't judge something I didn't/wouldn't read but I feel like the people that write that kind of stuff never feel like they are part of the problem and always feel like they are calling out something other lesser people are too scared/square to admit/telling it like it is (as foolish as it is to deal in that level of absolutes XD).

Consumption itself doesn't limit/shut off imagination (it generally does the opposite), but that requires thinking about it for longer than it takes to initially dis/agree.

Great post @tarazkp.
I had to take my time to read through this post.
From the article you read, i guess no one has the right to dictate when and who to give birth. Though, giving birth early sounds great, but that doesn't mean that those in their 60s should be left out.
And also, life has change so much that humans now focus on drastic things. People don't longer use their IQ for important test. We now solely depend on other factors.
Ain't you surprise, that Almost all the topics being taught in **Physics, Mathematics** and **Chemsitry**, where long discovered by people who are dead thousands and hundreds of years ago.
Just hope that humanity get's it right.

Al Pacino's having a baby? Aww! 😂

I often wonder about those columns, they're like eating sugar, leave you feeling empty afterwards. I'm annoyed each time I'm duped into reading them. I prefer the recipes 😍.

Thinking is a challenge: I've just been through it this weekend. Working out exactly what the problem is and then what I want to do about it. The answer, interestingly, is nothing. The other choices were to run with the herd which is in a frenzied FOMO, or make a stand when no-one is listening. It helped me clarify my own direction and decisions, though, maybe that's all that we can hope for.

Great post!

Will these "gross old men" be alive for much of the kids life? No. Will the mother? Probably. Will the kids be financially stable, hell yes. So if they want kids at 80 why not? Everyone has free will. I personally wouldn't do it because I would feel guilty knowing that I'm probably going to drop dead before the kids tenth birthday. But  death is something we have no control over, yes we can try to modify risk factors but 18 year old's drop dead every day from heart attacks. Not only the obese ones but student athletes too. Although statistically it probably won't happen until after 50 unless you're a heavy drug user.
  
Just like you I don't see what opioid deaths and childhood obesity have to do with Al Pacino. As humans we all tend to be stupid, it's a fact of life.  I do think that this "phase" of accepting of all sounds nice. but it will end quickly as soon as World War 3 kicks in with millions and millions dead around the world or some other mega disaster ravages the earth. There was once a film called "Reality Bites" (don't watch it, it sucks,) but welcome to the world because it reality does bite. The world can very cruel. Yes I'm getting old and cynical. I worry for my kids futures and for the human race as a whole. Maybe Elon Musk's Mars colony will save humanity, who knows?

Click bait is toxic and should be avoided, but hey, that's how they make their money like you said. Hell, I got sucked into this post because it looks interesting, I'm as guilty as anyone! Thanks for the great post and sorry for the long winded and rambling response. It's nice to know that some people in this world of ours still make use of their gray matter!