Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
There are social scientists who argue that we should encourage people to have children because it makes them better adults. People tend to start thinking longer term about society.
I'd argue this goes for being responsible for another person, period. Well, maybe not on the societal level, but it does raise standards pretty consistently.

I mean, if you're doing something entirely for yourself, your efforts generally stop at the level of "good enough". If you do it for someone else, you have to perform to higher standards because you don't know what their "good enough" is, and you don't want to come up short.

Now extrapolate that from the scale of "one household chore" to "total dependency".