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Why won't you have kids??
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Do you have any idea how much you have to abuse a living being for it to consciously not want to have kids?
And we achieved this level of abuse on humans! And we did it very well, in reproducible way, with reproducible results across multiple countries! We should make a research paper about it.
Nah,
I just think that they're annoying, and they would absolutely ruin my life
There's not a single thing that appeals about having children. Everything I enjoy would be ruined by them
I wasn't beaten or abused by society. I live in a civilised part of the world, rather than the shit show that is 'Murica
It's not neccesary to invent grand reasons for not breeding
I just didn't want to
I mean, cynical part of me wants to thank you, since my kids will have better chance at life with less competition for it.
This is exactly the kind of thing breeders say that makes me cringe at the thought of reproducing another human into this world. Fucking lunatic
It's people like that that comfort me in my belief that leaving the trees was a mistake.
Unironically calling another person a breeder is kinda fucked though.
Unironically thinking it's better to keep jamming unloved kids into this hateful world instead of making it a better place for those already in it is pretty fucked too
Having and raising kids and bettering the world we live in aren't mutually exclusive.
They certainly aren't mutually inclusive either
You just assume every child is unloved and maybe in their lifetime they won't make the world a better place? Lol
Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but with parents like this:
"I mean, cynical part of me wants to thank you, since my kids will have better chance at life with less competition for it."
I don't expect the world to become a nicer, better, place.
Incel take using a Lemmy comment as your anecdote lmao
Lol, k, that was the comment I was replying to, that's why I used it
That in no way makes it indicative of actual parent-child relations. In fact, I dare say a majority of parents love their children.
Uh, you can make poor decisions with things you love, or think you love, or have animal instincts to love, and it's hard to argue that parents won't do anything to help their kids, not short of doing things to the detriment of the rest of society. Look we can talk in circles, but I don't think it's doing either of us any good really, have a chill Friday evening dude
There is no way out of this hole without guiding children to a better future. They too must build it. You have a good evening too.
What makes you think their kids are unloved? You just seem extremely bitter. It's cool that you decided not to reproduce. Whatever, it's your life and your decision to make. But fuck you for thinking like that about people who do have kids. Fuck. You.
It's justified. You are not thinking straight, and are shoving non-consenting people into a world that is overburdened, and explicitly does not want them.
We need to fix this place, before forcing anyone to live in it.
Here we go again with this Reddit bullshit. The kids are fine, they will be fine. They may not be able to live in squalor like the boomers did in the 80s and 90s, but they will be fine. Plus, we need kids for our species to survive. We need new generations to fight the old pieces of shit that are ruining everything. What is your plan here? Just combat the one instinct humans still have? People like you are the selfish ones. You just want an easy life with plenty of money and time for yourself. You are the reason Idiocracy is becoming reality.
The plan is to knock the population down to the point where A: making money for tycoons is hard and B: the value of everyone remaining, goes up.
Not create human slop to slave away in an ever-rightless world.
There's few conditions where more children are a good idea, very few.
Why in the fuck would I slave away, in order to push another person into the same situation? Why am I obligated to breed? Maybe I can adopt instead if I feel like it, no reason to add more people to this helhole.
Or, your kids could have less support.