Social Justice Warriors Thread

[Smitty-48]

The trick is finding a mate who is also not up for all that diaper changing to nowhere, who also wants to get dat blang instead.

Then you have won the war.

[Speaker to Animals]

The war to have no genetic future?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Its kind of weird that all the doom and gloom people on here who think that the world is going to be hellish in the next gen or so want to force another life into that tragedy. Like, did Anne Frank have an obligation to be pregnant in Treblinka just so that she could have her family line continued? If you think the world is going to shit and we are in a hopeless situation and soon to be living Cormac McCarthy's the Road or Gulag Archipeligo 2.0 or whatever, I don't see the logic in inviting another person to the party. Not saying I have a crystal ball, or any good answers to these big questions, but its kind of selfish in a way.

For one, it’s the ultimate biological imperative. It drives nearly all natural activity.

For another, it’s the people that want kids who are most concerned about the future. People without them have no reason to care what happens later.

There’s an argument that without this concern for the future generations, we would have imploded as a species many centuries ago.

[Smitty-48]

If you want to dish out some affection, get yourself some dogs.

The love of children is overrated, they mostly just sponge off you and then leave.

[Smitty-48]

The war to have no genetic future?

Spartan UBI Space Soldiers can clone their heirs.

[Smitty-48]

Also a very high probability that, as soon as you have children, your mate will become totally attached to them with little time for you, and she very plausibly will just ditch you, take the kids with her, and make you pay for it.

[SuburbanFarmer]

If you want to dish out some affection, get yourself some dogs.

The love of children is overrated, they mostly just sponge off you and then leave.

It’s the ultimate building project. An expression of skill and dedication beyond anything else you could do.

Unless you’re carving out Mount Rushmore. That was equivalent.

[Speaker to Animals]

Also a very high probability that, as soon as you have children, your mate will become totally attached to them with little time for you, and she very plausibly will just ditch you, take the kids with her, and make you pay for it.

That part has to be reigned in.

[Smitty-48]

If you want to dish out some affection, get yourself some dogs.

The love of children is overrated, they mostly just sponge off you and then leave.

It’s the ultimate building project. An expression of skill and dedication beyond anything else you could do.

Unless you’re carving out Mount Rushmore. That was equivalent.

I'm Gen X. There is no future. I don't care.

[heydaralon]

Its kind of weird that all the doom and gloom people on here who think that the world is going to be hellish in the next gen or so want to force another life into that tragedy. Like, did Anne Frank have an obligation to be pregnant in Treblinka just so that she could have her family line continued? If you think the world is going to shit and we are in a hopeless situation and soon to be living Cormac McCarthy's the Road or Gulag Archipeligo 2.0 or whatever, I don't see the logic in inviting another person to the party. Not saying I have a crystal ball, or any good answers to these big questions, but its kind of selfish in a way.

For one, it’s the ultimate biological imperative. It drives nearly all natural activity.

For another, it’s the people that want kids who are most concerned about the future. People without them have no reason to care what happens later.

There’s an argument that without this concern for the future generations, we would have imploded as a species many centuries ago.

You are an atheist. Why the fuck is that important to you at all? If one species of millipede or trilobyte goes extinct, does that hit you in the feels?

You think our economy is going to collapse and that we will all be corporate slaves living impoverished lives of misery. If you were living on a plantation as a slave in Lynchburg in 1800, would you feel that it is in the best interest of you and your future offspring to procreate?

Again, I don't have a definite answer to this, but most people on here including me are pessimistic about the future, but we have children. Maybe the future would be waay better if less people did so, because then the future society would have less people fighting over resources. Hell, less traffic is an argument unto itself.