I’m not an anti-natalist nor am I planning to have children, but I am generally interested if there is a good reason to have children.

It is obvious that capitalism makes it hard to raise kids but even without capitalism, is there a good reason to bring new humans to earth?

I don’t know am I caring too much?

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    4 months ago

    Without “new humans”, who will continue the socialist cause? If you’re not having kids and raising them as socialists, capitalists will still be raising generations of future capitalists, and indoctrinating proletarian kids to service capitalism.

    As an individual you are free to make your own choices, but for socialism to succeed, socialists have to survive in the first place.

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      4 months ago

      I would argue that a single child is such a time sink that you are doing a disservice to the movement because that time could be spent radicalizating dozens of strangers.

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      4 months ago

      If you want a kid “for fun” you aren’t old enough to have one :/

      You don’t get a kid “for fun”, your kid is not merely something you have to have fun, your kid is their own person and you have to respect that.