Am I that important?

A friend asked me if I will consider donating my eggs. My immediate answer was no. Not really prepared to justify my answer, I just said something along the lines of me not being important enough or having the best biological traits. Then my friend went on to say that her reasons for considering egg donation are to leave a legacy to the world and to fulfill other people's dreams of becoming parents. While the conversation may have been a good way of picking someone's brain, I did not appreciate her apparent aim of trying to change my views. I believe that that kind of conversation is the lowest form of dialogue. When something boils down to one's preference and values, there is no use telling the other person that your choice or view is better.

Now that I have more time to think about the topic, my answer is still no. Unless a person is after the financial compensation for selling her eggs (yes, that's selling, not donating), I think that the person will have to be a narcissist to even think that her eggs in particular are needed by the world at large. What is so special about you that you have to spread your DNA? What philanthropic responsibility are you fulfilling by allowing intergenerational social complications? Also, I think that children from your eggs are not your "legacy to the world" unless you raise them yourself or give them your name (which you will not do when you are merely an egg donor). A contrary view would suggest that egg donees can never have a legacy and that parenting is not important in producing a human being, at least a functional one. Besides, there are other ways to leave my mark on the world -- probably, something arising from my abilities and industry, rather than from the life of a once extracted egg cell.