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I’m a pretty liberal guy, but IVF has never sat right with me. Thousands of dollars to produce a baby when living ones already exist. Of course adoption is no
by wfhordie 4y ago
I’m a pretty liberal guy, but IVF has never sat right with me. Thousands of dollars to produce a baby when living ones already exist.
Of course adoption is no cakewalk and itself costs many thousands of dollars (plus the emotional toll).
In the end, though, the entire idea of having kids at all is repulsive to me. Why bring another life into this fucked up world? You’re just going to get divorced and traumatize the kid anyway. Better instead to make robots to do the jobs those kids would do when they grow up.
At the very least, leave the baby making to the immigrant families.
- Infinitesimus 4y agoThose are some very strong assumptions you're making about why people have children. I'm glad you've figured out that that's not for you so definitely don't have kids and continue (hopefully?) to contribute to the betterment of those alive today. People have children for all sorts of reasons. Nowadays they are more emotional decisions or influenced by biological desires but those are still valid. For those who enjoy having and raising children to lead good lives, it is rewarding and makes existence more enjoyable. The beauty is that most of us can make our own decisions though there is still societal pressure to have kids. Which is obvious because our species will die out without them.
- wfhordie 4y agoI don’t make any assumptions about why people have children because those reasons are entirely irrational. I also don’t care if our species dies out. That will happen long after I am gone