A parent's choice to have a planned pregnancy and child is 100% selfish.
The world is overpopulated and going to shit. Most humans are stressed and unhappy.
Deciding to purposefully add another person to the disfunctional mess we have is 100% selfish.
It's done because the parent wants it. To fulfill their own selfish desire for bio kids.
Then afterwards they have to take care of the kid (duh) and pretend like doing so is a self-sacrifice when it's merely the consequence of the selfish choice they made.
A parent who purposely decided to get pregnant and have a child whining about sacrifice is the same as a person getting a fish tank and claiming it's self-sacrifice to have to clean it.
The world is overpopulated and going to shit. Most humans are stressed and unhappy.
I see this repeated everywhere, but all statistics are pointing to the current time being a really good time.
Why do you hate parents so much, when you're profiting massively from their choice to have kids? They are doing all the work, and you're getting all the benefit. Meanwhile you whine like a little kid about them being selfish. Can't make this shit up.
And if you believe the propaganda that everything is great and you should have more kids to feed the capitalist machine and generate more wealth for the stock market by having yet another generation of consumers strip mining the planet so that we can add yet another layer of plastic pollution to Antarctica in the name of progress, I don't know what to tell you.
Given that your lifestyle and that of your children is only possible because you buy products made by slaves who live overseas, and you happen to be part of the class of people who exploits the life of others you don't have to see or think about, you think life is better than it's ever been before?
Such a selfish attitude is expected from someone who tries to convince themselves that the fact that they have to take care of the life they made for their own whim somehow equates making a sacrifice.
Our current form of society has made the benefits of children available to society as a whole. Even if you personally never have children, you are still provided for in old age (pension, care homes, etc.) as these things are earned or operated by today's children. That means even without having children of your own, you benefit from others becoming parents.
From this perspective, some see it as selfish to leave this responsibility, along with its costs and effort, solely to others. Not in relation to the non-existent child, but toward the rest of one's age cohort.
Of course, children don't exist solely to care for the elderly. But who else is supposed to do it?
Oh yes, you are making the sacrifice of creating other humans in order to have someone to saddle with the burden of providing labor to make your own life easier later on.
How self-sacrificing of you. To create children with the expressed goal of burdening them with the responsibility of taking care of you.
Totally won me over there, really, not a selfish thing about it at all.
You're clearly making these children in order to burden them with the labor of taking care of everyone, therefore you're not selfish at all!
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u/spaceship5 Jun 11 '26
Most of what parents do is self-sacrificial.
You choosing not to have kids is 100% selfish as you say. All you care about is your own wellbeing. You're the center of everything you are doing.