I’ve always thought it cruel to have children as they’re incapable of consenting to sapient existence. Add in living in America on a dying planet, and now you’re just being deliberately cruel by having kids on purpose.
The fascists have no qualms with having kids and raising them to be little fascists, too. I had kids because I wanted to love and care for people as I help them develop into capable and caring people, but I’m also glad that at least 2 of the members of the generation who will be running this planet when I’m old won’t have been raised by fascists.
I think this whole line of reasoning that it’s immoral or cruel to have children at all is just plain dumb and utterly nonsensical. Yes, there’s a lot of fucked up shit in the world. But, other than climate change, this is far from the worst the world has ever been. Brining people into the world now is not particularly worse for them than, say, having kids in Medieval Europe where there was a decent chance they’d die as an infant or get the plague, but the best case you could hope for was to give them the life of a subsistence dirt farmer. Or ancient Mesopotamia, where, again, odds are they’d die in childhood, but they couldn’t expect better than barely surviving on the edge of starvation. Etc, etc, etc.
Yet through all that people managed to find ways to improve their conditions and that of those around them. People fought and built better lives and a better world. Fuck anyone who tells me I should just give up and just resign that the world now and forever belongs to the fascists and capitalists.
Having kids is not cruel. Despite the darkness, there’s still a hell of a lot of happiness to be had in this world. I look at the expressions of pure joy on my kids’ faces as they explore the forest near our house, or when I get home from work, or when they make cookies for their mom, etc. And you’re telling me giving them that joy is cruel? How detached from reality do you have to be to believe that?
Are you capable of guaranteeing these children will never suffer in their lives?
Of course not. Everyone suffers in their life at some point. That’s called being alive.
I think that’s also an absurd hurdle to insist someone has to clear.
Bold to asume I want children.
Even bolder to assume those fictional children would even want children.
The assumption was that you might have grandchildren. Not that you want them 😉
Some want their own kids, some not. Some don’t know them…
“Never leave the family vault. Its not safe out there.”
But the water recycler is borked!
My grandchildren will enjoy the relative bliss of non-existence.
✂️🍒
I got fixed a couple months ago. Best decision ever.
For nearly 40 years, I’ve been told the horrors of climate change. For nearly 40 years, I’ve watched climate change unravel. And now at nearly 40 years on this planet, I’ve reached a point where I am more concerned about immediate human activity affecting my life rather than the breakdown and collapse of our planet’s environment.
At no point in my life has there ever been a desire to bring a new life into this horrifying existence.
Now if only those weird and miserable old men would stop calling me selfish for not having children. Their obsession with my genitals makes me uncomfortable.
Cherry Choppin Daddios
I won’t be passing on anything, instead I will create brand new traumas!
Children beware, beware of the penny sock.
The value of working in my home office. Since the start of covid, and ongoing. Maybe I am overvaluing it now. But maybe not?
Don’t assume your tax dollars are put to good use. If your neighbors are gullible enough, your money will literally be siphoned towards repressing you.
Invest globally.
Technically we haven’t made it through yet. In the 2020’s 5 years is a REALLY long time.
Well, I hope we both make it.
I’ll pass none :3… unless they invent mpreg, the chances of me having grandchildren are close to 0
Brb gonna register “AO3 Laboratories, LLC”
Lack of existence because I sterilized myself after the SCOTUS decision ending Roe leaked
It’s impossible to say since no one has actually lived through the 2020s. It’s 2025 dude, we’re all right in the middle of the 2020s.
I think there’s enough trauma already to go around.
People in power are actively dreaming up new unspeakable horrors to release upon the American public as we speak.
I’m sure there’s plenty more trauma to come
What grandchildren? I guess it’s not impossible I’d have to remarry in my 50s or older to someone with kids, but I sure hope I don’t have to.
That the West is just hunky dory with supporting a genocide that is being live streamed.
Never trust the news, never trust the government, always keep your security at maximum
Never trust the news, never trust the government,
Actually, I’ve been okay with our government this last half-decade. It’s not been awesome, but it’s been nowhere near as bad as, say, America’s last 90 days. We avoid the foreign-owned press a bit more, now that they’ve self-identified themselves, but our leader has been … I’m gonna say ‘okay’ … and the health advice and status from our head health honcho was … adequate.
A deranged flatlander, though? Never trusting one of those whackadoos again.
Actually, you should have learned that earlier. “Earlier” doesn’t mean 201x or 200x. “Earlier” was at any time when you were 15-20 years old :)
As someone who was 17 during covid… seems like it was a fine time to learn to me /j
Long COVID and fascism.
