This is getting away from the original premise of the post but I think it is worth mentioning.
Do you have to have kids to "be a father"? There is a fair number of people here who would excoriate someone for "raising another man's child" as being a beta simping or whatever. Most men who want to serve as a father want to raise their own families. Marriage is you telling the mother of your children that you are going to commit for the full time period to raise them and support them to adulthood. just like swearing in to military service or a political position.
I don't see these plate spinning lifelong bachelors who are stepping up to reverse the tide of Fatherless homes and the shiftless , adrift, worthless young men it creates. And I won't respect the playboys until they can demonstrate an ability to help others with as much attention and effort they put into themselves.
I have a childless, bachelor uncle whom I idolized as a young man. He was a cool uncle and we got to hang out and do a lot of things together without having to compete with cousins, or his wife or girlfriends for his attentions. As I got older I got to see his shortcomings, and I had to reconcile that in my mind. I don't think most lifelong bachelors play that sort of role in another young man's life... at least until they become old and lonely.
TLDR: don't criticize someone else's decision to pair bond, reproduce, or not. It's a personal decision.
agree and like it.
helping young men doesn't make a man any more attractive to women than not doing it. perhaps it makes them a better men, but in ways that only men can see. where we can get tangled is if we ever expect women to admire us for helping young men. the only one that will really care is ourselves and the one we helped, but the one we helped will only know it usually later after we are gone.
if only we could make women be attracted to such things, those problems would be solved faster than the sun rises.
the red queen drives us all. the way evolution works for humans does not cause the characteristics you are telling to rise. the ones that will rise are the ones that do not care and move on and create more numbers.
if you share your resources with another man younger or older or the same age in an effort to help him, and time is also a resource, other men that do not will increase in value while you do not. at least as value is perceived by women, as women place no value on helping others. This is why in a completely free market the rich will continue to get more wealthy and smaller numbers while the poor will become poorer and the number increase. No true social or red queen-based reward for helping a competitor, only the winner is rewarded.
every time a teacher really tried/tries to help a student learn, it was/is almost always a male teacher. We always tell that women are better teachers but it is almost always men that will to the extra lengths to really teach.
getting men to know these truths is necessary for their own sanity, survival, and improvement.
Yes, we can help and take care of and make the world a better place, and we can do that with any number of existing kids that are around and NEED help. But, the evolutionary reward system will punish that good deed.