“But the world needs more people like you!”
This is one of the more frustrating pro-natalist arguments because it’s essentially saying:
“The world is broken, unpleasant, and unjust. So, naturally, we should breed more people, make them live in this broken world, and hope they’ll somehow fix all its systemic social problems that are backed by wealth, force, and a complicit populace.”
Most likely, neither your potential kids nor my potential kids will change the world. If they did grow up to be genuine revolutionaries and actually change the world, they’d be in grave danger of harassment, imprisonment, torture, and execution.
But, again, and not to be edgy, they’d probably be like us and every other shlub: working, consuming, paying taxes, and dying. I look around the bus, the grocery store, doctors’ offices, and hospitals (my mom has health problems), and I think about how a lot of these people must have had parents who thought their kids were god’s gift and would find greatness. But we all just look tired.
The world doesn’t need more people – like me or otherwise. We need to stop breeding people in unjust societies that rely on a constant feed of humans to do grunt work, to fight wars, to be imprisoned, to do unpaid/underpaid labor, to pay taxes, to buy, buy, buy.
And we need to demistify the creation of new humans, who, after they supposedly give their parents “purpose” and “validation,” will spend the majority of their lives laboring away and finding ways to distract themselves.
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