• Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
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    The real horror of the future is climate change, which is usually the first thing people cite when questioning if it’s a good idea to bring kids into the world at all.

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      You could have said this about nuclear war 40 years ago, or the Holocaust 40 years before that.

      As it stands, a few online gooners swearing they’ll never make babies with their Canadian girlfriends is a moot point.

      But the “I’ve made the logical decision to choose not to have children” line is largely cope in a society where people who do want kids struggle so hard