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Would you be a sperm or egg donor for a friend?

Would you be a sperm or egg donor for a friend?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 64.9%

  • No

    Votes: 17 29.8%

  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 3 5.3%
  • Total voters
    57
Seriously, they're not your kid and they're only marginally related to you (genetically). Why do you absolutely want to control any aspect of your friends' life anyway?
 
Harlequin said:
No, that's not how it works. They ask for your sperm and, if you're a good friend, you say "okay sure why not" but you don't expect to be a parent to that child. You don't have the "right" to name it and you don't have to right to decide how it's going to be raised because it isn't yours.
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...WTF? Who said anything about raising the child. Naming and Godparent right =/= to raising or being the parent of the child.
 
In this society, parents name their children. Why are you trying to take control over things usually left to the parents?
 
I would probably tell them to adopt. There's enough people in this world; we don't need anymore.

... And I don't like kids....

Really though, even if the child is genetically related to you, it's not yours. You don't own it. The sperm/egg is like a present to someone; once you give it to them, it's theirs. You don't get to have anything to do with it anymore.
 
Jason why are you being a huge dick

You can give two nice people something that you have an unlimited amount of and comes at virtually no loss to you whatsoever, but you're just waving it over their head like "nah nah nah nah nah not if you don't let me name the kid~"
 
Valor said:
It's a fucking name. And I'm making sure that I at least have the name I want for my own kid.
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Wtf that's like

"sure, have my sperm" *





*terms and conditions apply (so long as I get naming and godparent rights)

It's not really a donation if you want a reward out of it.
 
It would really depend on who was asking me. On the one hand, I'm not planning on having any kids myself, so maybe passing on my genes some other way wouldn't be bad. And it would be interesting to meet children who look sort of like me and knowing they're genetically mine.

On the other hand, I've heard it's painful. And would I really want to meet my genetic children? Plus, there's a family history of depression, and would I really be willing to force that upon an innocent child?

So the negative outweighs the positive. I'd most likely refuse. But if one of my best friends was asking, I'd probably say yes.
 
Everyone has a family history of something. Depression's a better choice than most.
 
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