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Agreed. I was happy for decline of world population but seeing the rise of anti-envirmentalism makes me think that child-free people might be more inclined to b
by evrenesat 2y ago
Agreed. I was happy for decline of world population but seeing the rise of anti-envirmentalism makes me think that child-free people might be more inclined to be selfish. After me, the deluge!
Edit: to be clear, I see possibility of selfishness as a side-effect of being childfree, not a corelation.
- lazypenguin 2y agoInteresting correlation, if one doesn’t have offspring to “leave a better world” to why should they care? Hadn’t thought of that before.
- stayclassy9 2y ago[dead]
- Aeolun 2y agoHow about being a dick makes you less inclined to have children? I’m inclined to believe selfish people are less inclined to have children (there will be ‘some’ that see them as a trophy, but fewer than the ones that don’t want them at all).
- evrenesat 2y agoI have a kid, and I'm very sad about the state of the world my daughter going to live. I was relatively lucky, she is not. If I didn't have her, I'm sure I would care much much less about stuff I failed to change for the better, it would be much easier to say "f.k it, that's natural order of things, history repeats itself", give up and live my life fast and lose.
- stayclassy9 2y agoIf you think that simply having children makes one selfless, I recommend talking to like... 80% of the people with parents for five minutes about their childhoods.
- arp242 2y agoSelfish or otherwise unpleasant people can be found in any demographic: childless people, people with children, people over 1.80m, people under 1.80m, etc. Some demographics certainly have higher ratios of unpleasant people. In some demographics it's even close to 100% (e.g. neo-Nazis). It's entirely unclear to me if the rates are different for people without children. If they are, then you really need to do better than this kind of armchair analysis that you've posted here.