The great 20th century poet/philosopher Pat Benatar once remarked that "hell is for children." Jean-Paul Sartre, a lesser-known thinker from the same century, wrote that "hell is other people."
I would like to take these ideas to the next, logical step by saying that hell is other people's children. If you've ever sat through endless hours of proud, new parents cooing over the latest developmental milestones of their newborns or tried to sleep on a transatlantic flight in economy class with an infant screeching behind your center seat, you know precisely what I mean.
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