• cabbage@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    As a European, even if I’m relatively well-versed in American absurdities, I fail to understand how the hell anyone could make a connection between childlessness and selfishness.

    All my friends who want kids have the opposite dilemma, they want it on a personal level but they feel like having children is a selfish thing to do on a planet that already struggles to sustain the people on it, and where these children would face a very uncertain future.

    Who exactly are you selfish towards? Your hypothetical children who are just begging to be born? Republican policy makers who want cannon fodder for their next great war?

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      4 months ago

      I think they see it as being tied to the economy. It’s most likely just an extension of their terrible hustle culture