The number of low-quality responses that basically go "you're misanthropic, you're depressed, you're nihilistic" (exact adjectives) on HN is gobsmacking to me.

The number of low-quality responses that basically go "you're misanthropic, you're depressed, you're nihilistic" (exact adjectives) on HN is gobsmacking to me. It is bonkers that this topic brings out those horrible, shallow emotions even in a (relatively speaking) shrewd and open-minded place like this. It really is like people's brains are short-circuited by even the vaguest "negative" (in the broadest possible sense of the word) opinion on having children, even if that opinion is quite tame and curiosity-minded, and isn't even in the same universe as something like an assertion that you, the reader, shouldn't have children.