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How come there are so many parents in here? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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The community is called childfree, you'd think everyone here would be at least somewhat opposed to the concept of having children.

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[+] -15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The distinction between choosing childlessness and holding that no one should procreate is real. What follows from the second view is not a demand that anyone alive change. It is a claim about the next person. The economic half deserves a direct answer, because it is the strongest part: modern growth presupposes continuous population expansion, new workers funding pensions and new consumers driving markets. Stated plainly, that requires imposing existence on unconsenting beings so they can serve as economic instruments for those already here, inheriting the debt and the degradation. The problem of caring for an ageing population is real. It has to be solved through automation, institutional reform, mutual aid and resource reallocation, and not by creating people whose justification for existing is to care for those who preceded them.

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