He's winning at the game of life. The only objectively real "meaning of life" is passing on your genes. You fail that, your line goes extinct and you fail. Your species may survive, but you're no longer part of the game.
Having 35 children makes it far more likely that his children's lines will last further into the future while many around him will either not have children at all, or only have 1 or 2 and be teetering on the brink of a dead end with each generation.
All you men should be doing this, or donating to sperm banks etc if you actually care about perpetuating your own line.
Of course for some they are horrified by the prospect of some of the women who might comprise half the genes of their babies, or what those babies will end up like... but in the long run a random 50% of your genes survive in each one. Have several and you'll cover your whole genome. And most likely in a few centuries nobody will know or care what their personalities were like or even what their lives were like... but your genes will live on. (And if you had male line descendants, and they had males etc... your Y DNA will go on to long outlast your autosomal DNA, which gets split in half each generation until eventually it whittles down to random noise... but your Y DNA remains almost unchanged for thousands of years. But that's another story.)
He's winning at the game of life. The only objectively real "meaning of life" is passing on your genes. You fail that, your line goes extinct and you fail. Your species may survive, but you're no longer part of the game.
Having 35 children makes it far more likely that his children's lines will last further into the future while many around him will either not have children at all, or only have 1 or 2 and be teetering on the brink of a dead end with each generation.
All you men should be doing this, or donating to sperm banks etc if you actually care about perpetuating your own line.
Food for thought.
Of course for some they are horrified by the prospect of some of the women who might comprise half the genes of their babies, or what those babies will end up like... but in the long run a random 50% of your genes survive in each one. Have several and you'll cover your whole genome. And most likely in a few centuries nobody will know or care what their personalities were like or even what their lives were like... but your genes will live on. (And if you had male line descendants, and they had males etc... your Y DNA will go on to long outlast your autosomal DNA, which gets split in half each generation until eventually it whittles down to random noise... but your Y DNA remains almost unchanged for thousands of years. But that's another story.)