Refreshing to hear some of these points on my side.
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WarrenPeace — 2 years ago(January 02, 2024 02:59 AM)
For those of us who are childless we should have our special days of acknowledgement of how we are not adding to the problems the way breeders do.
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WarrenPeace — 2 years ago(January 02, 2024 03:02 AM)
45 minutes?
Fuck me!
I am not going to waste my time to watch all of that!
Not when it is someone preaching to the choir of one who does not care to breed.
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soapbox original gangster — 2 years ago(January 05, 2024 09:53 PM)
this person should take some of her patreon funding and take some elocution lessons, because she doesnt have a good speaking voice and her grating delivery is a major turn off.
i couldnt go beyond a few minutes.
she's reguritating stuff she's seen on other sites or read so zero originality.
and please, children living in africa and almost all of asia live in conditions which place them in mortal danger every second. YES, children get exploited in the US but our legal and social services' networks provide for recourse and intervention. that does not exist in vietnam, or Chad, or somalia. so her one-sided attack is pearl-clutchingly phony.
my friend belongs to multiple 'child free' groups on Facebook. she constantly yammers on about this stuff. from what i get from her, a good proportion of the CFers have taken their almost unanimously HORRIBLE childhoods-usually thanks to an evil/non-caring Mother- and reflected those experiences into their present adult lives, where the superneg past now poisons their present and future outlook.
they choose CF because they have no idea or expierence with a nice, normal, normative childhood, and therefore they dont want to bring children into the world where the mistakes made to the adult as a child could now get repeated. I reject that outright as bad logic and just cowardice.
other CF arguments take the overpopulation and climate change threats as a reason NOT to contribute to either. the US is most definitely NOT overpopulated, and making a choice based on external factors beyond influence- african pop growth as double-digit- is utterly foolish as a way to live. Climate change is absolutely real and a major existential threat; but is it a reason not to have kids? maybe that kid not born will solve the problems? <<===, yes, a bit of bad logic i agree: counterfactuals make bad premises.
Another thesis which i pick up on in the CF groups is their reaction to the "mommy bloggers" and the christian right's pushing the family as the essential and indispensible unit of american society. yes, the family is important and i will argue till death that a stable, normal, two-parent household provides some much needed structure and cohesiveness as proper role models for kids and society in general. but that's me.
THe CFers reacting to these "hostile" forces clouds their judgment about the ultimate reasons to have kids: human life needs them and our future depends on having birthrates at or above the replacement level. no, you dont have kids SIMPLY to serve as a future labor force member; you have kids because they can if they choose be in that laboy cohort and help maintain our tax base and way of life.
bottom line is that the GOP has now rewritten the constitution through the Roe reversal and also modified the 13th amendment's prohibition on slavery, as women must now give birth aganist their will and in effect live a life of maternal slavery raising at least one child or more. CFers should not have to defend their choices NOT to have kids since it's the ultimate example of pro-choice avoiding abortion. but i think we ned more births for strictly utilitarian and pragmatic economic reasons, which, of course, have nothing to do with the reimposition of child labor.