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What does "childfree" mean to you? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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Came across this community in my feed, and after browsing a bit I'm intrigued.

As an "outsider", I would have assumed this place would be about enjoying a childfree lifestyle, but it seems to be more than that.

For example, I see lots of posts and comments that seem to allude to extinctionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

That caught me off guard since I figured this place would be more like "look at all this free time and money and freedom I have to enjoy my life to the fullest in any way I want". Now I'm curious.

It seems like there's a whole spectrum of ideas that are getting lumped into the same bucket. What's your take? What brought you here?

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[–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Interesting, yeah the antinatalism is definitely the unexpected part I was picking up on. Would love to get one of those folks to explain how they ended up with that kind of viewpoint. I can't really wrap my head around it.

The other responses so far sound very reasonable and in line with what I expected.

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