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I think if you truly understand the current situation in the world we live in, economicly, socially, and environmentally, it is an extremely selfish act to create more human life.
That being said if I can ever escape poverty and have the extra money i would love to adopt
Not fast enough lol
The single most defiant act an individual can do twoars society is refuse to reproduce, after that is refusing to contribute to the society.
I respect your opinion obviously but I disagree. If the only people who can afford children are the rich then they will be the only people left. I get the sense from your comment that society will miss your offspring, and while I think it should as genetic diversity is a good thing, automation is likely to hurt the value of labor given our current direction. While genetic determinism is overused, I would put forward that those who succeed at capitalism have more sociopathic tendencies and desire for power. If only those people breed will not those traits become more prevalent? If that is the case then for the sake of humanity I think you should breed. Or maybe all of this will be made mute by genetic engineering, who knows.
Lmao this is the issue
Selfish people only think about who spawns more soldiers for a fantasy ideological war. Or for some sick fetish with spawning to perpetuate your oh so special genes and family name.
People don't fucking consider anything about the life their children will have to live, and then have the audacity to say "i love my child"
Birthing children into poverty is abuse. At least just as abusive as a parent who can supply everything for their child but refuses to, because the effects of neglect are the same.
I think people misunderstand how genetics work. What you say about a fantasy war is something that has been bothering me for a while, as this idea of "which genes get passed and which not" seems to stem from real phenomena, but are very poorly understood in its workings. Very few genes have high heritability, many are pleiotropic, many we have yet to understand what they do, and between humans we are absurdly similar to each other, yet as a population we have immense genetic diversity. The last two statements might seem opposing, but it is about the scope we look through. But once you understand this, any child is just like yours, and adopting becomes a better option ethically. This rhetoric of passing genes for selfishness and such are based on the ideas about genetics people tend to have but have little base in how it really works. The reality is much more complex, and nurture plays an absurdly large role in shaping us.
I think it also bothers you as much as it does to me because the argument is used in a way to get people anxious about societal implications for their immediate choices based on things that nobody knows how they would play out. It is guilt tripping, and so it feels like a bad faith argument to convince people of making big decisions.
That being said, I'm not against people having kids. People do what they want, but don't do it for any population genetics duty notion that you think you should fulfill. There are plenty better reasons to do so imo.
Fuck off troll.
Your desires aren't more important than your children's lives