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Who of you want or don't want children? I am just curious because most people that I talk to don't seem to want it. I mean leftist (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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I am curious if the majority of leftist people don't actually want children haha. There doesn't seem to be any studies about it, but my convos with leftists is that most don't seem to want to have children either for the uncertainty of the future or because they are too expensive or because it wouldn't give them too much time to organize or whatever other reason that I forgot about.

I personally lean on not having children because I have been laid off of several jobs and having someone financially dependent to me scares the shit out of me and would put my stress levels through the roof.

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[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The implications for child and societal welfare.

Edit: "but who cares?!" such a disgusting thought-terminating hollow canard.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're putting words in my mouth. If your implication is that children do not consent to being born, you have to also agree that literally nobody CAN consent to being born or not. So what is the point of you brining this up if not for the indirect implication that having children is inherently wrong as it does not factor in an unobtainable level of consent? I am actually interested in hearing how you would resolve this consent issue.

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 day ago

As Mao said, reality is full of contradictions, and contradictions aren't a neat or simplistic thing, there is duality and opposites in everything, and two dialectics can be true at the same time.

Of course no one can consent to being born.

As I say, I don't necessarily view having biological children as being inherently wrong. Selfish, yes. But not inherently "wrong". That's why I say partial anti-natalism. Just as I am not just a communist, but a specific subset. I don't see what's hard to understand about this. I'm not trying to be a dick, this is genuinely easy for me to "get".