Choosing to have kids at this point is just choosing to live through Grave of the Fireflies. No thanks.

According to this law, nothing has independent, permanent, or absolute existence. Everything is part of a limitless web of interconnections and undergoes a continual process of transformation. Every appearance arises from complex causes and conditions, and in turn combines with others to produce countless effects. By interrupting the causal chain at certain key points, the course of existence can be altered and effects prevented by eliminating their causes.

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Was the Stoarch Epictetus missing the point? He constantly told students what specific choices they should make.