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No shit. Raising kids is an act of love and sacrifice.
If you aren't willing to do this, do NOT have kids!
There's definitely this strain of "Why would I ever want to sacrifice for anyone else? Who could possibly deserve that much love?" coming off these comic artists and their readership.
It reeks of alienation and despair. Like, that final panel of the comic might as well be of the artist themself. Alone, on a roof, half conscious, rings under the eyes - that's more than a few people I knew back in college.
That's not what the comic shows at all. It ends with a solitary burned out person pinning for the past.
Presumably because you're not the one who wrote the cartoon.
With the implication that it's a lie, and the truth is in the fourth panel, yes.
If you're sympathizing with the artist, you're buying into this dystopian fantasy of how the artist's burned out friend "really feels", yes.
But this is coming from inside the artist's brain.