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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

why do some people hate kids so much?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

...check the community name, my dude

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't not have a boat because I hate boats. Same applies for kids aswell.

I must say tho thay when ever I hear my friends talk about their kids it's rarely about how nice they are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because they had a bad life and think they were "forced to be born (and then new humans would live a life as miserable as theirs)"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Everyone that has existed did have existence forced upon them though.

Doesn’t mean you have to be miserable, but existing was not a consensual decision (as far as we are currently able to understand).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't hate kids, but it would be a horrific nightmare for everyone involved if I had some of my own. Never wanted them, never will. I do adore my niece.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's okay to not want them, but calling them "shitty fucking kids" or "crotch goblins" or other stupid names is a different matter and only reflects badly on the person who says these things

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Why do you even care? CF people aren't going to bother you or your uninteresting children

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are in a community devoted to the decision to not having kids. Just pointing that out since there does seem to be some confusion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which totally shouldn't justify it becoming an echo chamber of child-haters

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It doesn't justify it at all, but it does add context

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see no hate in this thread.

We just don't want kids (or don't want to be around them). Doesn't necessarily mean we hate them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We don't want kids to be any near of us, which is totally not hating them"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't want homeless people near me either. Doesn't mean I hate them, or wish them poorly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'll attempt a real answer. I don't hate kids or the parents of kids who care for them and raise them to be good people.

I hate that societal pressures place having kids at the near top of life's implicit goals. I hate that my wife and I almost had kids because of these pressures, when neither of us really wanted it. And if it weren't for one (slightly older than us) couple we were friends with sharing that they were childfree, we would be there, and likely unhappy about it. So we speak out, not out of hate, but just to provide the other side, it ok to have kids... It's ok to not, it's a choice.