• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Why should one’s offspring care for that?

    Because they’re human

    Doesn’t change the fact that procreating is a one-way-decision-street

    Any expectant mother who miscarries can tell you why you’re wrong.

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      Because they’re human

      Yes. That gives them the conscious option, not the obligation.

      Any expectant mother who miscarries can tell you why you’re wrong.

      I spoke with many so far and wouldn’t know what that would have to do with anything? Despite the tragedy of misscariage, it was still a one-way-decision to procreate. The result of it doesn’t touch the point. The resulting kid had no choice to exist or not to exist. It was first thrown into existence and then out of it again. It didn’t ask for either.

      I don’t say kids shouldn’t be thankful or be in owing. They’re just no obliged to do so. You can’t set a kid in this world, expecting it to pay you back somehow. It might, it probably will. It might also hate you for it. But it doesn’t HAVE to do any of it.