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There are other choices. Adopting a child doesn't make the world any worse, most likely improves the life of that child, and grows your own sense of a purpose in life.

> Most HNers act like a quasi religious group.

That is a pretty broad brush.

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Maybe it grows your sense of anything, but for that child, life will never be quite right. Children who are adopted have a higher chance of developing mental disorders, alcoholism, major depression and so forth. [1] A portion of them go through a bumpy road before being adopted by the "right" parents, most are never adopted. About 140m children worldwide are orphans. [2] The event of being abandoned is already a very painful one with long-term consequences. If anything, this goes to prove my point.

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-paradox-of-adoption/

[2] https://www.sos-usa.org/our-impact/childrens-statistics

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