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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 (1 children)

I think there's something to be said about raising kids in a Marxist environment, though. Even if they grow up and have a fundamental disinterest in that sort of thing, you've normalized Marxist thought and maybe even warded off some brainwashing from capital. That's a powerful thing, making even one to three new people who believe Marxism to be normal and logical in the west.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You're not wrong at all but there's also the chance your kids turn out like Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg (both their fathers were/are Marxists).

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

Plenty who don't.

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

This is the most haunting thing anyone has ever said to me on this website.