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Given the State of the World, Is It Irresponsible to Have Kids?
- tlb 7y agoThe state of the world in the future is not a given. It's irresponsible to not fix the state of the world.
- rogerkirkness 7y agoNext level virtue signaling. It is typical to have a martyr class in society that sends a message by some kind of slow (or fast) self immolation process but it is strange for that thinking to get so mainstream (ie. antinatalist AOC). I surmise we don't hear much from the non-children of people who made this choice through history. Presumably only if they accomplished other worldly things would the message get through. Probably just focus on yourself.
- JohnFen 7y agoI remember having this same discussion with my wife almost 30 years ago when we were contemplating having kids (we decided to). At the time, I talked with my mother and she said that she had the same discussion with my dad when they were contemplating having me. My grandmother reported the same thing when she was contemplating having kids. I suspect that this is one of those debates that has been happening for as long as humans have been having babies. It reminds me of the old saying: every generation thinks that they invented sex, and that they are witnessing the start of the fall of civilization.