Comments by "lordsneed" (@lordsneed9418) on "The Things Women Aren't Allowed to Talk About in Public (With Meghan Daum)" video.

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  2. 34:25 "being a parent is really hard and it should only be done by people who want to do it or else they'll be bad parents and it is bad for bad parents to have kids" This is almost always false. In reality it is only bad for bad parents to have kids if they are such extremely terrible parents that they would cause their child to genuinely believe that life is not worth living , such as child molesters. If you're merely a rather bad parent e.g. if you become an alcoholic or you beat up your spouse and cause a divorce when the child is 13 years old , then that child you have will still overall consider their life to be worth living and thus it was a good thing for that child that they were given life by you. And so in reality, this " only people who would be really good parents should become parents" antinatalist message is going to nearly always discourage people who would naturally be pretty good or decent or only somewhat bad parents , all of whom should be parents because they will produce kids for whom it is a good thing that they were given life. And so this antinatalist is nearly always going to land on people for whom the message is not true. This is not the only reason why nearly everyone should have kids. There's the fact that not having kids is being a selfish parasite free-rider because you are benefiting from living in a society whose standards can only be maintained by a steady supply of young labour and yet you are doing nothing to contribute towards that steady supply of labour and are only benefiting from other people's contributions to that supply of labour. So childless people are parasites akin to people who don't pay their taxes. Anyone who does this selfish parasite behaviour needs to offset and give an extra contribution to society equivalent to young labour and then it's ok for example there might be some jobs that society needs done that require non-parents in which case this would be noble. But there are limited things like this and still society needs the vast majority of people to have children and contribute to the the supply of new young labour needed to maintain society by having kids. This is not the only reasons why anti-natalism is false and wrong and bad but it will do for now.
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