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Reply #17: I don't believe that we owe people merely because we share some genes with them. [View All]

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Mon Aug-31-09 07:59 PM
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17. I don't believe that we owe people merely because we share some genes with them.

If someone has treated you like nothing but garbage in the past, you're under no obligation to them now, IMO. Family or no family. I've never quite understood the notion that we're "supposed to" care about certain people simply because they're blood relatives, if they have no other redeeming qualities or if we're simply not compatible with them.

I certainly care more for my "family of choice" (pets, friends) than most of my "family of birth," since the former have actually earned my affections.

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