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I just wanted to report that someone (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ekaulakis https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ekaulakis) left this comment, and then
by deanmoriarty 8y ago
I just wanted to report that someone (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ekaulakis https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ekaulakis) left this comment, and then deleted it before I could reply:
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You embody the death of our civilization. Have you ever felt gratitude for the systems which you count on to sustain you? "
This is exactly the kind of reaction that I am facing from social connections and family for living a "non-normal" life, where everybody tries to make me feel incredibly guilty for taking a decision of not having kids and pursue other activities in the incredibly limited amount of time I have on this planet.
- justaguyhere 8y agoI am in the same boat, having decided not to have kids. IMHO, the best we can do with people is ignore them. This becomes difficult if they are close relatives like parents or siblings, should be relatively easy with others.
- seren 8y agoOn the other hand, I sometimes ponder if we are not going to run our 'civilization' into a wall by relentlessly keeping having children, so I am not sure at this point that the most rationale decision is to keep going like the last few millennia.