popa,
forgive me for saying this but if one cares about their children, then shouldn’t they care about their children’s children, and so on? Isn’t a big part of Yiddishkeit the continuation of our kind? While this in a a large part means providing for torah study, we should also bear in mind the changes to society’s normalities and their ramifications ie. if we are propagating an unsustainable system?
It would be different, if we were creating a system whereby we were cutting off options from future generations.
That is happily not the case. Future generations will make the choices they need to make, and we will make the choices we need to make.
Even if we were cutting off options from them, I still think I would disagree.
We need to do what is appropriate today. G-d has enough money in his bank account to take care of our great grandchildren. I don’t think a part of this generations “hishtadlus” is to worry about 4 generations from now.