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Carrion's avatar

Antinatalism is really gay.

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MRDA's avatar

My contention: Why care if the cunts tear chunks out of each other in a wretched hellscape free of the kind and considerate. If the majority are ultimately, to a greater or lesser degree, nowt but bovine beasts of prey, isn't abandoning antinatalism or encouraging pronatalism, by breeding or blessing, just feeding these future souls to a den of wolves?

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Hmmm… well, I ‘d say humanity is… on a spectrum (rolls around in silent laugbter)

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Gina Nelson's avatar

I definitely leaned in this direction for a long time, but I did so due to things outside my control & the planned ignorance that was structured to accompany it. I had no $, no good options for a husband until I was 35, no support system for kids, a lot of extreme examples all around me that were not good for children, often leaving them in really sad situations, & zero understanding of how to properly care for a kid, which is why I felt this way. I didn't want to hurt someone innocent or have them live in poverty, so I decided not to have any.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

That’s true too! I think a lot of people our age lived in poverty so long we really never considered kids.

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Gina Nelson's avatar

I knew a lot of people close to me & all around me that did, & I saw the lives they ended up having, their kids got the worst of it most of the time. I know most people just see kids as instant poverty; nobody who wants to change this is willing to deal with this issue.

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The Truth Hurts News's avatar

I don't give a damn what you are, but being raped is something I detest. I hope they caught the nonces and they got a beating every day. I am sorry you went through that, TWICE ffs!! 😞

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Thank you so much! You wouldn't believe the number of people who have actually given me shit for it. Too bad their parents weren't antinatalists.

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The Truth Hurts News's avatar

You had shit for being a victim? What sort of world are we in? Unbelievable

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Oh, I still do. From every opportunist political nerd and bigots of every color.

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The Truth Hurts News's avatar

Unbelievable Ann. You hold your head up high, you have done nothing wrong. 🙏💪❤️❤️

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Well, I’ve done other things wrong, but thank you so much!!!

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The Truth Hurts News's avatar

Yeh well, you would need 3 lifetimes to catch up with me Ann 😂👌🙏

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Jackson Houser's avatar

While not an anti-natalist, I was a non-natalist, or anatalist, for similar reasons: I thought I was too likely to screw things up. I realized my error too late, but basically for reasons similar to the ones leading you away from anti-natalism. Besides, the Benatar asymmetry seems to guarantee that no good can come of it, whichever meaning of that phrase, "no good can..." you use.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

I wasn’t ready to be a parent when the time was correct… my experience with my parents was too bad, I learned nothing except what not to do, so consequently I just didn’t do it.

I don’t know, maybe I’m missing a parenting gene and it’s a good thing to reduce it. But if you accept the antinatalists’ logic that they’re the good people, then they’re leaving a nastier world behind them, great job guys.

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Bill Price's avatar

We can all partake in parenting to some degree, natural children or not. It transcends biology. In a sense, we must parent ourselves or remain forever children.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

For me it’s curiosity, but maybe one day I’ll love someone who doesn’t stick a knife in my back. Then again, I probably would keep living for my cat.

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