I’m struggling with the thought of potentially bringing another person into this world in the future.
Things are so bad already and on track to get worse. Why, with this knowledge, should I have a child? Why should any of us?
I’m not asking this to be some overpopulation crazy eco-fascist but I just genuinely am wondering (and have an open mind) about what the actual implications are of bringing a child into the world right now.
By 2050 it’s pretty broadly agreed upon that things will be HORRIBLE climate wise and even worse if capitalism isn’t defeated soon. 2022 + 80 year potential life span is 2102. What will it be like then?
Why not adopt one of the billions of climate refugees instead?
I don’t know, maybe I’m way out of touch but I just can’t think of a reason to damn a child to a life like that.
Nope you completely missed what I said. Not once did I say we should avoid raising children, your entire response is an absolute misrepresenting of my comment.
What I said is that it is wrong to call it a duty. Every point I made was why it was wrong to call it a duty. Every bit of my comment was that it should be about autonomy and not a duty. That’s it. Please actually read what I said and respond to the actual point in the future.
And no, it is not an “implicit assumption” that you meant it without gender oppression, because we live in a system (the system in which you called it a duty) in which it is gender oppression. And any framing of it as a “duty” will ultimately come from a place of gender oppression, because that is coercive and compulsive, anti-autonomous leveraging of reproduction.
It’s not implicit, because there’s plenty of misogyny and queerphobia in many conversations in communist communities, so you have to be explicit when you talk about these things.