Reminds me of this quote from an essay by Roderic Day - “When we proudly assert that we are for the individual over the collective, we’re essentially saying that some people count as people, and some don’t. At the heart of liberalism lies dehumanization; we should not forget that slave ownership was one of the original “individual rights” that was so fiercely fought for by American revolutionaries.” https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
I partially disagree. I don’t think it’s selfish to not want to have children, and I would never want to raise a child in a capitalist society. However, I agree that the “lose 18 years of their lives” part is ridiculous, and the entire comment is written under the assumption that capitalism is the only possible system
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Same, I can barely not kill myself and support my bare existence, if I were to have a child it would mean death to me. I would never have children under capitalism.