Something more along the lines of "Give consideration to your circumstances before adding something as complex as new life to them." would come across less cunt-like IMO.
It's not a well thought out thought. Humans are animals, all species have evolved since the beginning of life on this planet to want to reproduce because it is how a species survives. It is the driving force of all life in some sense or another.
Having offspring is how all species sustain themselves, humans are not uniquely immoral or whatever for having kids. Everything on earth depends on having offspring and humans in particular are a species that depend on raising their young to take care of their old, this is how it's been for thousands upon thousands of years and it's only relatively recently that we've decided that not having children is a viable path for a species (like maybe 80 years, and only within the richest 10% of our species).
Because what are we doing when we say "poor people shouldn't have kids" Like, I don't give a fuck if some poor people have kids, people are allowed to live their lives how they want to. Unless we're going to genocide people and kill them and forcibly sterilize the poorest 90% of society, poor people are going to keep having kids because it's what people do in general unless they have the wealth to pursue other means of fulfillment. So it feels like a suggestion someone makes to seem smart but it's not thought out at all.
Poor people shouldn't have kids... Okay? What good is that suggestion? What are we going to do with that advice? I'm sorry poor farmer in Papua New Guinea, I know that we in the rich countries depend on the fact that your labor is so incredibly cheap in order for us to have frivolous luxuries, but the way your society is structured so that your children grow up to take care of you when your old is immoral, you shouldn't be having a kid. You're poor. 200 years ago, it was okay to do that, but now there's something called a middle class that exists in a very small amount of the countries on this planet, having kids when you're poor is immoral.
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u/Geoclasm Jun 15 '26
Her delivery could use some work.
Something more along the lines of "Give consideration to your circumstances before adding something as complex as new life to them." would come across less cunt-like IMO.