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I've gotten a vasectomy and refuse to have kids because I think it's unethical to have children right now facing an unprecedented climate disaster. It's going

by ipqk 6y ago

I've gotten a vasectomy and refuse to have kids because I think it's unethical to have children right now facing an unprecedented climate disaster. It's going to be real bad. REAL bad. All the evidence points towards that. Most people are in denial about how bad it's going to be.

jakeva 6y ago
I've done the same thing. Idiocracy be damned, it seems like we're already pretty close to there. At least I will be able to enjoy my life knowing I'm not going to have to be responsible for a life or lives in an increasingly destabilizing climate.
- neuronic 6y ago
  I would suspect that your kids would have at least a chance of contributing to solving this crisis. Many people will have kids because that's all they can do with their lives and the kids won't get the (easy) chance to become a great scientist, leader or similar. It's sad, many children will be subject to completely idiotic parents and so much potential will be lost.
lifeformed 6y ago
Why would it be unethical to have kids? Because they use resources? Well, it takes resources to fix things as well. Having kids would only be bad if they used more than they contributed. Make them a net gain for society. Raise them to be resourceful and educated and a force for good. Doing that has a far greater benefit to our civilization and environment than not having any kids at all. We need the next generation (and this one) to fight for the necessary changes. If everyone who was worried about climate change made their contribution by not having kids, then the next generation is just going to be all kids raised by climate deniers. If anyone should be having kids, it should be the ones who are worried about the future!
- jonp888 6y ago
  Because you bring them into the world in the knowledge that their lives will be somewhere between slighty worse and a lot worse than yours. I don't plan to have children anyway, but I've concluded for instance but there's no point in making sacrifices today in the service of enjoying a comfortable retirement, because by that point western society will no longer be any fit state to provide for a conventional "life of leisure" retirement.

by ipqk 6y ago

jakeva 6y ago

I've done the same thing. Idiocracy be damned, it seems like we're already pretty close to there. At least I will be able to enjoy my life knowing I'm not going to have to be responsible for a life or lives in an increasingly destabilizing climate.

neuronic 6y ago
I would suspect that your kids would have at least a chance of contributing to solving this crisis. Many people will have kids because that's all they can do with their lives and the kids won't get the (easy) chance to become a great scientist, leader or similar. It's sad, many children will be subject to completely idiotic parents and so much potential will be lost.

lifeformed 6y ago

Why would it be unethical to have kids? Because they use resources? Well, it takes resources to fix things as well. Having kids would only be bad if they used more than they contributed. Make them a net gain for society. Raise them to be resourceful and educated and a force for good. Doing that has a far greater benefit to our civilization and environment than not having any kids at all. We need the next generation (and this one) to fight for the necessary changes. If everyone who was worried about climate change made their contribution by not having kids, then the next generation is just going to be all kids raised by climate deniers. If anyone should be having kids, it should be the ones who are worried about the future!

jonp888 6y ago
Because you bring them into the world in the knowledge that their lives will be somewhere between slighty worse and a lot worse than yours. I don't plan to have children anyway, but I've concluded for instance but there's no point in making sacrifices today in the service of enjoying a comfortable retirement, because by that point western society will no longer be any fit state to provide for a conventional "life of leisure" retirement.