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[–] Elting@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, lots of good reasons not to have children but this obviously is not one of them. Like not swimming because of shark attacks.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah it's very unlikely then again people generally don't operate on statistics. Like I've seen people super afraid of extremely unlikely things and totally comfortable with much more likely dangerous things.

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

the human brain is simultaneously the most logical and the most Dunning-Kruegered stupid thing we have ever encountered.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

We are just hairless apes. Sometimes we should really lower our expectations. I'm surprised we've made it this far.