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Are left wing people much less likely to want to have children than right wing people? (hexbear.net)

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[+] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I can only envy your life being so utterly free of irritating personal interactions that the mere thought of someone else experiencing one compels you to seek them out to personally scold them

[+] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t have a blanket negative opinion of humanity. I have a blanket neutral opinion of humanity. Many individual people are irritating. Many individual people are wonderful. Some are both. Kids have these same attributes because they’re people that are, by definition, learning everything for the first time.

I promise I’m not trying to smuggle in some secret “those people/kids are bad” rhetoric, if that’s what you’re inferring. I’m irritated at myself for mistakes I made yesterday. Kids are literally making mistakes constantly, because that’s how humans learn. It’s extremely easy to be irritated by tiny people that fuck up constantly. Kids require patience and empathy all day every day. Perhaps it’s fine to let people that recognize they’re not well suited to provide that self-select out of a lifelong responsibility for childcare?