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I was child free until I wasn't?
Lil guy is pretty cute.
Saw this when browsing everything, normally I'd let it pass but I felt called out.
I totally support the child free community. Was pretty sure I'd be amongst you all.
I hope most in the child free are not aggressively against children, I knew someone like that once, not a cool person.
I didn’t even know this community was here. I’m childfree and intend to stay that way. I didn’t know I needed a community to bitch about kids to do it.
There is a surprising amount of antinatalism here. Apparently people just want the human race to end.
I do want the human race to end though. Not painfully, but rather phasing out gradually (although I do realize that antinatalism is such an unpopular opinion that it isn't really possible). No hate for children or any other being though. I just want there to be less suffering.
do you want to end all life that suffers?
Not sure what you mean by that. Neither I nor antinatalism advocates for ending existent life. It is just about not causing additional suffering by bringing new beings into existence.
If anything, I believe that we should acknowledge that we are all in this suffering together, and be compassionate to fellow living beings.
It's the logical conclusion of antinatalism. All life "suffers". If you stop bringing new beings into the world that can experience suffering then you're advocating for no life at all after this current generation.
And yes I fully support compassion and empathy, but you can do that while also sustaining the human race and life as we know it.
Got it. Thanks for clearing that up. I thought you were talking about antinatalists ending existent life.
Yes, in the ideal scenario, I think it is best to "end" all life, via gradually phasing out of existence. I think that would cause minimal suffering. I do not realistically think that it could happen in the next generation (or in any generation owing to how extreme and controversial it is perceived by the general population).
Sure, you can be compassionate and empathetic to existing beings, but I see not bringing new beings out of empathy (due to the potentiality of their guaranteed suffering) to be more moral and a purer form of the trait.
yes @thedarkquark@lemmy.world because creating and ending life is the same. every sperm is sacred.....
yeah im with you here. Also if the population and balance goes far down enough people would start having children again. We just have to get back to that level.
I dream about it. Like, if a fungus infected all of mand kind, and suddenly we all stopped reproducing because the fungus made our brains not want it, what would happen? Would we take care of eachother until the last ond dies? Would we ever identify the fungus and slove it?
so many thoughts
Yeah, reddit childfree is insanely hostile and spread to other subreddits with their hate on any child. I was childfree until i understood the concept of life and how we came to be in humanity and society. I would not exist if any one of my billions(trillions?)of ancestors decided to be child free.
I don't think anyone else here is confused on where humans come from.
It's Africa, right? I'm pretty sure it's Africa.
This is the problem with the childfree community these days, antinatalists (who argue no one should have children) have taken over.
But they are an extreme and vocal subset of child-free people. I am happily childfree but i acknowledge that other people who do want to have kids should have them, and that we need children to sustain society.