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Is there any good reason to reproduce? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not an anti-natalist nor am I planning to have children, but I am generally interested if there is a good reason to have children.

It is obvious that capitalism makes it hard to raise kids but even without capitalism, is there a good reason to bring new humans to earth?

I don't know am I caring too much?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

What are you looking for when you ask for a good reason? When you ask for a reason it sounds like there is an implicit counter argument.

I'm not the best to offer reasons, my partner and I are child-free, but you can find all sorts of reasons to have kids and I don't really think they matter. If you want to have kids, go for it*. If you don't, thats awesome too.

*consent for procreative acts and we live in a society etc. but we're ignoring capitalism so...