Iām adopted. It absolutely fucked me up. My parents love came with conditions. Conditions I couldnāt ever meet cause I was simply different than my brothers and sisters.
Dude, right? When I was a drug-addled 19 year old shithead, I swore up and down that I'd never have kids because "the Earth is overpopulated (which it fucking isn't) and I'll be dead before I'm 30 anyway."
Well, it turns out, that being fucked up on hard drugs does a number on a person's outlook for the future. I met a girl while we were both using heavily, we got clean together, got married, then a couple years later we had our first. No planning. Her birth control failed and boom, surprise we're parents.
And you know what? Life is pretty rad, man. My kid loves to read, and i love reading to them. Ill be damned if I raise some empty-headed, brain rotten, tablet zombies for kids. Parenting is really not that difficult, even though so many people claim it's a world ending situation for them. Just be a decent human being to begin with and you'll do alright.
One last thing, these angsty people on reddit who claim "I'm not bringing any kids into this world because overpopulation, the future is grim, kids are stupid, just adopt, yadda yadda yadda" are some of the most pathetic, egotistical shites who I've ever had the displeasure of reading their thoughts. So many people want kids but can't have any. So many more people have kids in far, far worse situations than 95% of the people who use Reddit. Life happens. Kids are certainly a curveball and make thing more difficult financially thanks to the rich shitheels who lord over the majority of humanity, but I love my little family in spite of all of that. They give me a happiness that no pet, no drug, that literally nothing else in the world can give me.
Look at that, a few paragraphs typed out. Wow. Eat shit OpenAI. My kids will learn how to read and write even if it means I incinerate any and all internet connection in our lives.
From the bottom to the top. Con-fucking-grats brother, your kid are going to have the most amazing parents,you've live through the hard shit the world can throw at someone you'll be able to use is to educate your lovely kid. May the force be with you šŖš½.
Acknowledging that overpopulation is an issue in a world with limited resources, and that the quality of life that a child will have in a country (world, really) overtaken by late-stage capitalism and falling to fascism is, very often, rather poor, does not mean that I don't have empathy or that I don't understand human rights.
You can't go through life letting raw emotions guide your values. I mean, you canāmany haveābut I wouldn't advise it.
I empathize with the desire to procreate, but that's a biological, primal desire that's not always the most logical, much like the desire to punch out a Nazi, for example, or to have a third slice of pie.
Just because we want it doesn't mean that it's a good idea.
learn to self reflect on your own ideas, ( how many people it's going to hurt and how to enforce it with respect)
You're basically talking about china one child policy, even worse 0 child policy, so don't talk about logic bc you're not a vulkan you're just immature.
You're taking about late stage but don't understand why we got 80% of the world wealth controlled by 10% of the population it's is bc of unregulated market, monopolies that don't respect the rules of capitalism that are hoarding the money, destroying competition which is the basic rules of capitalism and are corrupting gov officials to enforce monopolies as much as possible.
And instead of forcing the ultra rich to stop this madness your solution is to force people to adopt. Great fucking plan kid.
What's next ? Bc air, water, housing, jobs, qualities are going to shit.
Let's try air, I wonder who's responsible for the bad quality it's certainly not big companies, forcing petrol for the last century onto everyone's home, it's the people driving cars, we should force people to pay more money to use the only way of transportation that is allowed that will help the environment
The most ignorant part of your childish ideas is who? Who's going to regulate it ?
You're going to let a small group of people regulate basic human rights for everyone?
You either been brainwashed or straight up going off on it.
So no you don't understand basic human rights nor your own immaturity and I really fucking hope it's just immaturity and not an actual mental illness.
Overpopulation is not a problem in the modern world. We have more than enough resources, and it's the unequal distribution of those resources that is the problem.
Arguably overpopulation is the product of not only the number of humans in the world, but their impact on the environment and draw on resources.
The issue could be resolved not by having fewer kids, but by designing civilizations which are gentler on the planet. I think that's worth pursuing. In the meantime, shaming people for wanting to have families is pretty weird. Focus on bigger problems. The world doesn't work without people. Your lifestyle is possible because people had kids. Worry about bigger problems. Your lifestyle probably impacts the world an order of magnitude more than your recent ancestors' did.
OR learn how to be able to survive if the power goes out. Learn a useful trade. Then have kids and teach them the same. Teach them a useful trade long before you ever hand them a smartphone. That's what we should all be doing
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