• 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 years ago

    To be honest, I’m adopting this view more and more now that the world turns into a dystopian nightmare.

    I don’t think kids being born now has a high chance of being happy with big tech running the world.

      • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 years ago

        The general vibe around r/childfree on reddit wasn’t a positive one

        • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Already happened. Anti-natalism is toxic af regardless where it is, and i’ve already seen people doing just that here in Lemmy.

          • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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            2 years ago

            I mean, wanting humanity to die out is such a depressing thing to think. If you want that, you need therapy

            • Sukisuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Is it more depressing than humans killing everything in sight including a whole damn planet with no control over their greed?

              What would you say if there was a bug that is able to live almost anywhere on earth, destroying the nearby environment and making animals go extinct, poisoning the water, sky, soil, leaving trash that’s radioactive, poison filled or very hard to degrade, while killing each other for profit and doing imaginably dark and amoral things?

              We kill insects for doing a lot less. Yet when it comes to us, we’re free to harm everything and everyone, and when someone says “we should destroy this species, they’re dangerous!” They’re therapy worthy.

              I think what’s therapy worthy is not being aware of even a fraction of the dark shit that goes on in the world and being content because their bubble holds up just fine and that’s all that matters. Its delusion of grandeur experienced by a whole species. Anyone who says otherwise is ridiculed and treated like they’re ill. Isn’t that convenient

            • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Yeah, it’s a death cult through and through. I get some people chose to be child free, but people relate themselves as anti-natalism ain’t just about that.

              • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
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                2 years ago

                I’m not exactly antinatalist, but I’m somewhat sympathetic to their position. The way I see it is this: humanity’s effect on nature is on the average, harmful.

                We’ve been very successful as a species, but at the cost of a lot of others that weren’t able to cope with our success. Perhaps some species which are useful to us—sometimes just by being cute, have learned to live with us, or have learned to live despite us, have managed to thrive. But for one species that gained our protection, how many others have disappeared with no one caring?

                If that’s not bad enough, I don’t think that the average individual human being is thriving. We’ve destroyed a lot only to build depressing cubicles for us to rot in.

                I don’t think it’s worth it.

                Having a child means condemning them into an ever worsening world. And I don’t think I’ll be able to properly equip my child to even have a smidge of a chance of being “well-off”, healthy or even happy.

                However, our innate instincts, as well as societal and other pressures pushes people to have children even when it’s not going to end well for the children as well as their parents. Antinatalism is a counterbalance to this pressure.