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Do you want your kids to grow up in a single-room household with 4 adults and 8 children?

• renewiltord 1y ago
  If this were the only way they would exist, then it would not stop me from bringing them into being. My ancestors made the right choice. I will not deny my genetics their legacy. If I choose other conditions, it’s not because of trauma but because comfort is good.
  • sorcerer-mar 1y ago
    Right, you prefer other conditions because they're better. We have decades of research to show that more space and privacy is not merely a matter of comfort. Or, if it is, that "comfort" affects more things than one would expect. I've already linked to them above.
    • renewiltord 1y ago
      I grew up in conditions you would never countenance and I’m incredibly well adjusted. What value are your systems when they lead to your trauma. You are constantly traumatized and I am not, despite facing conditions you could not believe. Either I am inherently an übermensch or my methods are better. You have your loneliness epidemics, your PTSD, and your therapy. I don’t. Or to put it evocatively: https://x.com/pjayevans/status/1612904509575139328?s=46 https://x.com/pjayevans/status/1612904509575139328?s=46
      • sorcerer-mar 1y ago
        This would be an excellent rebuttal to the claim that everyone who experiences a specific type of hardship later has a specific outcome. But for the claim you're responding to, this appears to mostly just be some cringey self-aggrandizement?