Considering what I meant, as opposed to what you gleaned from it, yes, I think that suggesting that people are childish is worse.
In any case, I did not comment on your specific case, and you have taken my use of the term "dignfied" in the wrong way, which, I confess, may be my fault. In my mind, there is a difference between permissible and laudatory behavior. I said, in a later post, that I supposed there were various adequate reasons to choose against bearing children, and that my reference to a religious vocation had to do with reasons raising the matter to another plane. Thus, I do not think that childlessness, absent a religious vocation, is necessarily undignified, I think that a religious vocation gives it an ennobling rationale.
I apologize for the poor choice of words, since I evidently created confusion on the subject. |
