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[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What’s wrong with being selfish? I didn’t want kids, full-time kids are annoying and a huge responsibility. If someone doesn’t desire children, it’s very much ok to dedicate the energy and resources of raising several kids to themselves.

People are selfish, reproducing doesn’t exempt you from being selfish, people can have kids for selfish reasons too.

I admit sometimes I’ve thought it would have been cool to raise a human from zero, trying to make them a good person, and be a demigod to them on their first years because they didn’t know better; but I still think the world needs less people, not more. Since the 70s we were warned about overpopulation and the environment, and we just added another 4 billion people anyway.

Edit: thank you for the correction, kind stranger.

Keep in mind that the "selfish" bit is just the Boomers projecting. We all know they're the most selfish generation by far, they just don't want to admit it to themselves

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

1970 world pop was 3.6B. 2025 8.2B

We just added another 4.6B

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Largely in the global south who will be migrating to the West en masse

What exactly do those cardinal directions mean on an oblate spheroid?