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How or why people feel so entitled to insist that other people have kids is beyond me (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

there's billions of people in the world, there's zero impact on whether the humanity will continue or not. being upset at someone for not procreating is silly and having kids just for the sake of propagating life as if people were scarce is ridiculous.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    It's just a logical argument such as if everyone decided not to have kids, humans would go extinct pretty quickly. Not that I really care. I'm happy to be alive so I'm glad my parents weren't against having kids.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    i get where "if everyone does that then it'd be bad" comes from but it doesn't apply here, if you look around do you realistically see it as a necessity for everyone to have kids to save the humanity from going extinct? if one or few people says that they don't want to procreate, will every single person in the world follow suit? in case that i live my life without having kids, what's the worst that will happen to humanity because of my choice?

    i'm also happy to be alive, but i also have reasons why i don't want to have kids and it's not like i'm taking life away from someone with that decision.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    All good in my book. Don't have kids if you don't want to. I'm just explaining where the notion comes from.
    Sure you not having kids won't cause the population to collapse. But it's a bit the same as you not throwing your garbage in the trash - one person doing that won't make a significant difference.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    well, i was explaining how the notion is baseless. no realistic amount of people deciding not to have kids due to personal reasons are going to make the world go anywhere near extinct (or make any meaningful dent at all) and anyone being upset at other people for not having kids for any reason is a very silly individual who should focus on minding their own business instead.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Humans going extinct would save every other living thing on this planet, lol. Who's selfish now?

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