As someone that's childfree in his thirties and is planning to not have any children; I live for myself, my own aspirations, philosophy, love and exploration. Career certainly does not come first, but its not hard to see how having a family would stop me in my tracks of progress in life. Being around peers with children does bring me joy, but it would be a personal experience I could not handle. And I figure, for someone like me its probably best to embrace the child free life with my partner rather than put someone into this world and raise them as unhappy and unmotivated parents. What exactly is wrong with that?
> They are, in the truly biological sense of the term, drones.
Does it really matter what makes another happy?
> They are drones, by choice.
And you're not a drone by choice? Just another side of the same coin. You're not exactly coming of as happy and fulfilled either, more as a someone with a ingrained world view of kids being a necessity for ones happiness in life.
> I don't understand why they even bother without love and laughter to look forward to at the end of the day.
There's enough love and laughter in my life, I don't have a deficit of it at the end of my day. Instead there are other long term goals, career and non-career wise which are indeed very important to me, but which absolutely do not leave any room whatsoever for children.
To those who consciously and deliberately avoid it for childish, irresponsible, misguided and selfish reasons: yes.
They've decided not to have a stake in the future of our nation. They've proven themselves incapable of long-term planning beyond their own immediate gratification. They have no skin in the game.
Why would we want them to vote? How could we possibly trust them to make responsible decisions with their track record?
If the devil offered them $10 cash on condition that the world is swallowed in flames in 100 years, what's to stop them?
> If the devil offered them $10 cash on condition that the world is swallowed in flames in 100 years, what's to stop them?
Umm... just knowing and doing what’s right? Is having children the only thing stopping you from doing that sort of thing (metaphors aside)?
You often get this from religious folk: “if you don’t believe in God, what’s to stop you from killing people?”. I would flip it the other way: is God the only thing preventing you from killing people? Because if so, that’s terrifying.
As someone that's childfree in his thirties and is planning to not have any children; I live for myself, my own aspirations, philosophy, love and exploration. Career certainly does not come first, but its not hard to see how having a family would stop me in my tracks of progress in life. Being around peers with children does bring me joy, but it would be a personal experience I could not handle. And I figure, for someone like me its probably best to embrace the child free life with my partner rather than put someone into this world and raise them as unhappy and unmotivated parents. What exactly is wrong with that?
> They are, in the truly biological sense of the term, drones.
Does it really matter what makes another happy?
> They are drones, by choice.
And you're not a drone by choice? Just another side of the same coin. You're not exactly coming of as happy and fulfilled either, more as a someone with a ingrained world view of kids being a necessity for ones happiness in life.
> I don't understand why they even bother without love and laughter to look forward to at the end of the day.
There's enough love and laughter in my life, I don't have a deficit of it at the end of my day. Instead there are other long term goals, career and non-career wise which are indeed very important to me, but which absolutely do not leave any room whatsoever for children.