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paulcolelast Saturday at 8:27 PM1 replyview on HN

> Doing this stuff when you have kids though is negligence

Obviously there’s a middle ground but nobody says that giving up the thing that you love because you have kids is negligence.


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OrsonSmelleslast Saturday at 11:38 PM

I think having a commitment that strong to a dangerous activity should factor into whether you have kids in the first place. Maybe it doesn't make the answer an automatic "no", but I think one has to really think through one's decision to create a person who will have a disproportionate risk of major trauma in their early life and should have an extremely clear contingency plan for the child's care by someone who is genuinely psychologically and materially prepared for that eventuality. I think that to do less than that would be negligence—it might be a common type of negligence, easily obscured by romanticism about bold endeavors, but it is certainly not taking care.

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