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Is there any good reason to reproduce? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not an anti-natalist nor am I planning to have children, but I am generally interested if there is a good reason to have children.

It is obvious that capitalism makes it hard to raise kids but even without capitalism, is there a good reason to bring new humans to earth?

I don't know am I caring too much?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Children care for you when you grow old as you cared for them when they were young.

I am admittedly childfree so I am biased, but I have never particularly cared for this argument of having kids. It has always seemed inherently extremely selfish to me. There's no guarantee that children would be willing and/or able to take care of you when you're older. What if you needed special care for example.

Not to mention that even if I were a parent, I would not want my children to put their entire life on hold to take care of me when I am elderly. I can't imagine my parents wanting that either. If I had to take care of my parents I would have to quit my job and fly across the planet to a country I haven't been to for 20 years. My partner would either have to do the same, compounded by the fact that she doesn't speak the language, or we would have to be seperated for a very long time.