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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Our parents and grandparents had kids - depending on your age - when there was a world war and tens of thousands of people were dying daily in their country, or in the 50 years where the world was always on the brink of getting destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse if one of the two world powers made the wrong move. Were they dumb?

Not to downplay on the current emergencies which are existential and terrifying, especially seeing how little as a species we are doing to address them - but they are a bit of a silly reason not to have kids.

If you don’t want kids don’t have them, you do you :) far too many people have children out of peer or societal pressure or just carelessness, and we could really use much fewer of those, considering the societal damage of absent or careless parenting. But just be honest with yourself, no need to blame viruses and “no toilet paper”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Woah handle all that edge with care!

[–] explodicle 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It might've been more clear if you just said "I don't think they were dumb. Therefore..."

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