The world is being destroyed, physically, economically, and culturally by a small and malignant infestation of greedy parasites. There is little hope for future so why would people want to bring their children into it?
This comment is getting way too many upvotes. The world is not that bad and I’m sure 99% of people alive today would rather be alive than to never have been born. I’m not saying it’s that good but it’s not so bad that I would rather be not born.
Oh I completely disagree. If humans had a simple offswitch the world population would crater. Basically if wanting to be dead made people dead we would have a massive amount of dead people fast.
No, it is not too bad today but what about in a year? In 5 years? 10? 20? If you bring another human into this world you always have the thoughts about this new person and want it to have its best life. Today is fine but I doubt 20 years from now will look fine. Probably much sooner than that and it will not look very fine any longer.
And no, I don’t regret being born either. Just wish people stopped being so ignorant and stupid.
Look, I love this place and sympathize with the sentiment, but it’s also structured as a dramatized, extreme echo chamber. This neat little oasis amongst the burning internet is not (at least for me) representative of real life.
The world is being destroyed, physically, economically, and culturally by a small and malignant infestation of greedy parasites. There is little hope for future so why would people want to bring their children into it?
This comment is getting way too many upvotes. The world is not that bad and I’m sure 99% of people alive today would rather be alive than to never have been born. I’m not saying it’s that good but it’s not so bad that I would rather be not born.
Oh I completely disagree. If humans had a simple offswitch the world population would crater. Basically if wanting to be dead made people dead we would have a massive amount of dead people fast.
No, it is not too bad today but what about in a year? In 5 years? 10? 20? If you bring another human into this world you always have the thoughts about this new person and want it to have its best life. Today is fine but I doubt 20 years from now will look fine. Probably much sooner than that and it will not look very fine any longer.
And no, I don’t regret being born either. Just wish people stopped being so ignorant and stupid.
‘Cause this is Lemmy.
Look, I love this place and sympathize with the sentiment, but it’s also structured as a dramatized, extreme echo chamber. This neat little oasis amongst the burning internet is not (at least for me) representative of real life.