This is true for any sort of sacrifice. Volunteering, saving people from burning buildings, giving your last dollar to someone more in need.
To be clear, I look at my children in the way you describe. I don’t hold “my sacrifices” over their heads, it was a decision I made happily and don’t regret. Same as when I donate money, help someone on the street, etc. But IMO just because it’s a decision (even made happily) doesn’t mean it’s not a sacrifice at the same time.
Yes I suppose you could apply that to anything and say sacrifice doesn’t exist for anything. But since we are discussing it, I don’t think we are in the mindspace you are proposing.
This is a new frontier my friend, you have to carve your own path!
Being a good parent and making sacrifices are not the same. It’s impossible to be a parent without making sacrifices. It’s possible to make said sacrifices and still be a bad parent.
Try being a parent and get back to me. There isn’t a parent in the world that doesn’t make sacrifices. Even bad ones do. There’s no way to raise a kid without time and money and loss of sleep. Even if you do a bad job.
Unless they put you up for adoption or sent you to live with relatives, the fact that you are still alive disproves this point.
Yeah the obvious counter to this is AI job applicants who can play the numbers game, say what the hiring AI wants to hear and get hired enough times and long enough to grab some pay checks. This is already happening. Get the bot swarm ready.
Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.
I stopped listening to Roger Waters when he started parroting Russian pro war propaganda.
Not if I have anything to say about it. I’m putting a cap at $59.99 for must have AAA titles with tons of replay value. I will wait until they meet me there. Most games don’t meet that standard for me, so most I will be waiting much longer.
Of course it wouldn’t work. That’s the whole point. But I say we just ship them there whether they want to go or not.
Well that sucks.
Don’t know how you did that but thanks
Sorry I meant second from top (edited now).
What’s second one from top on 30?
No we’d come up with something else. We need to gene edit everyone to edit out the tribalism gene and replace it with a “we’re all in this together” gene.
Yeah we had our sources too ;-)
If I were a teenager again, I’d be headed straight to all the grocery stores in town.
Just bring in some eagles to take care of the mongooses.
It’s an expectation and a sacrifice. By having kids you made the choice to make some sacrifices.
In the definition of sacrifice there is no provision for how much you wanted to make said sacrifice or what the motivation was. Simply that you gave one thing up for another thing you found more important.
sacrifice /săk′rə-fīs″/ noun The act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim. “Social activism often involves tremendous sacrifice.”