I couldn’t for a long time reconcile having children with having a life’s purpose — the former seems like a very time-consuming way to go about one’s life (putting all this effort into shaping one individual’s life, instead of a large group of people or even the entire planet).

Now I think that having children may be a way to extend the chance to make an impact, a kind of high-cost but perhaps higher-probability Plan B.

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