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Psst. Nearly every human child and adult are the result of a hot stonking genitalia involving mess.
Replace the slobbering with visions of climate collapse and resource depletion making the near future an apocalyptuc wasteland, and that’s basically my reaction to every baby announcment.
So you just hate humans?
This is a direct copy and paste of a comment I posted yesterday as I’m too tired to retype it in different words.
Just keep in mind that you’re planning on bringing a child into a world where 90% of the planets arable land will be depleted by 2050, global fresh water demand will exceed supply by 40% by 2030 and 7 of 9 planetary boundaries have now been breached, so within the next 25 years billions of people will die in massive droughts and famines, and the oceans will be so acidic that the phytoplankton that produce 50 to 80% of the worlds oxygen won’t survive.
Oh and there’s a chance for a double Blue Ocean Event this year too.
It’s very hard not to be a misanthrope when this is the world humanity has created for itself.
We must go on, don’t we. We have to try.
Also a lot of people have children because it’s instinct. They feel the urge. It’s biological. Both me and my wife had this feeling. You want to create something that you will love.
I know all the arguments for not having children, but we are just animals following instinct sometimes/often.
You going to explain this to your kids?
That because you are just an animal and can’t control yourself, you forced them into existence, even though you knew how bad things were going to be?
That it’s not your fault (because you refused to listen) that bringing them into this world sped up man made climate collapse and resource depletion, cutting their lives even shorter and making them more brutal?
That you were aware of the imminant food, water and oxygen shortages; +4c climate, catastrophic weather, global fascism, billionaires, ww3, and the predicted human casualties from all this being in the billions; all set to happen within your offsprings lifetime, and yet you still had them because you are an animal who can’t control their urges?
Procreation is hubris, cruelty and arrogance, and you personally at this point don’t even have ignorance as an excuse.
I never really understood this take. To me it’s just a goal that they’re sharing with me. Like if they told me they just got married I’m not going to take it as them gloating about the wedding night specifically.
I also don’t get it. By extension one should also see the same “disgusting” reaction about absolutely everyone’s parents. Because guess what, this is how we reproduce.
Yet most people aren’t shocked when they learn somebody has children.
Well you see you’re not a massive pervert.
Why wouldn’t I want to imagine it though?
“…And we want to show you how, over and over…”
“Sorry, I think my brain just did a weird thing. Again.”
“No… That actually happened.”
Starts running, doesn’t stop to pack
