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Why won't you have kids?? (europe.pub)
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Four panel comic by @MrLovensetein. 1) Government says "why won't you have kids??" to a person. 2) Person gestures to a thermometer showing it's really hot. 3) Person gestures to an air quality scale showing it's unsafe. 4) Person gestures all around surrounded by fire
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, the callous answer is to just let them die. Like has been the case for all of human history. Families either directly cared for their elderly, or those elderly died.

There does not need to be a societal upheaval at all.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes. Baby is sick? Just let it die like our ancestors did. Perfectly reasonable. Someone looks different? Just stone them like our ancestors.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Well that’s a massive incorrect comparison lmao.

    Adults have complete agency over themselves and their lives. Babies do not.

    The idea of an adult retiring and no longer contributing to the workforce has only existed for the last 150 or so years of humanity in general.

    And even then, that adult has a literal lifetime to prepare for their own retirement.

    That’s absolutely NOTHING like a baby, which has no agency, no control over their life or actions, and is completely dependent on their parents. To even make the comparison is ignorant at best.

    If I make it to old age and can’t feed or wipe myself, and nobody else wants to do that, that’s a me problem. I have probably been a shitty enough person that my children and grandchildren don’t want to take care of me, and/or I’ve been financially stupid enough to not plan for that outcome. Either way, that’s my own life actions coming back to me.

    A baby doesn’t get that. They exist solely because some other people brought them into the world.

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