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⌈ Secret Post #2951 ⌋

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[The To-Do List, Brandy/Willy]

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[Avatar: Legend of Korra]

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[The Amazing World of Gumball]

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[Agents of Shield]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Galavant]

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[Soukyuu no Fafner Exodus]

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[Jamie Dornan from "The Fall"]

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Yeah, the childfree community itself can be pretty awful (not that everyone in it is. it's just one of those things where the loudest and most obnoxious people tend to drown everyone else out). The childfree lj comms were pretty good for a laugh though (especially childfree_hardcore or whatever it was called. some of those people were certifiable). Some of the people talked as if they were literally never a child and sprung from their father's forehead as a grown adult or some shit. Like, yes, a child crying can be really annoying but if two seconds of a kid crying in a grocery store is enough to send you into homicidal fits of rage then you have issues. There was also a lot of things that came off as kind of misogynistic in those comms. A lot of people only seemed to focus on mothers rather than fathers and called them "breeders" and "cows" (because they breastfed their children which...I guess makes you cow somehow?) and scorned them for daring to have children instead of living a "successful" life as if they were setting the women's rights movement back fifty years just by having kids. Shit got crazy. I don't want children myself, but those people made me far too embarrassed to label myself as childfree even though I've met people who identified as such who weren't rage filled assholes

On the positive side those awful people will never reproduce and therefore die out in the next generation.

True. There's always a silver lining

I can only hope.

How do they expect the human race to keep going if no one has kids, though?

That's the thing. A lot of people who are childfree are so because there are so many people on this planet. We don't have kids because we know how much more waste a child will generate over his/her lifetime. Even if we were to teach a kid how to use whatever resources are available, that kid coukd grow up to be a hyperconsumer. On top of that, we know that food production is at a crossroads due to an increase in social resistance to tactics to increase crop yields (among other things). We know that resources are projected to become more expensive at best because so many other people are reproducing (mostly due to social pressure). Even though birth rates are starting to fall in most developed nations, the positive effects of that won't be noticeable for a few more generations. Estimates from The Economist have indicate the population won't stabilize for at least another 35 years. By that point, we'll be at a point where people giving birth simply at the replacement rate will be more than sufficient from keeping the human race alive.

you don't get it. it's not a matter of no one having kids, it's a matter of respecting somebody's choice not to have kids.

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