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I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

"Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How about sparing them from a life of working constantly to have job insecurity, no social safety net, and a bullet for a retirement plan? Birth is cruelty.

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think you may just need to talk to somebody this comment is out of my depth.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We’re all talking now. I don’t find that perspective to be one that equates uniquely to a depressed person. That perspective is relatively prevalent within this thread, but also somewhat prevalent within social circles that I find myself in.

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"my life is so miserable that I would rather see the continuation of the species voluntarily end that risk someone else suffers like me" is depression. Maybe it's not suicidal depression, but it probably requires intervention.

Maybe it's just immature edgelord BS, but if not that's a serious problem.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I really think you’re missing the target entirely.

There’s not a biological imperative for humans to reproduce. It’s pretty egotistical to assume that your species “deserves” to exist. Can you tell me what about our species is so special?

Calling something “a problem,” and failing to articulate on what specifically makes it a problem is MAGA level thinking.