https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism

I think it’s stupid and worrying that their ideas are gaining traction.

I am not opposed to people not having children or representing themselves as a block, but the idea that having kids is bad is just plain dumb.

My own experience in life makes it reek a lot like mental health issues in those who are antinatalists.

  •  Griseowulfin   ( @Griseowulfin@beehaw.org ) English
    9•11 months ago

    I think a lot of it is depression and loss of hope and think “why would you bring a kid into this mess?”. I feel there’s a lot of personal aversion to children that might feed into this too where someone generalizes their dislike of children into the idea that having babies is bad.

    •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) English
      5•11 months ago

      yeah, i’d say a lot of it is a very understandable but simultaneously extreme and reactionary response to the general… malaise the world is in. i won’t judge someone for not bringing life into this world–i’m not planning to do it either, lol–but i can’t agree with the premise that it’s immoral to do so, even if the conditions currently are quite bad. i think that can lead down some quite bad roads.