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Is anyone childfree? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Amicchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I try to be. Children would be exhausting to parent in the current era. Humanity's future is gloom too.

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[–] DPUGT2@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

i.e. saying "people who don’t want kids are mentally ill" and then wondering why people would consider that to be an insulting statement.

It's like saying "people who want to force themselves to vomit after every meal are mentally ill" and then wondering why the bulimics consider that to be insulting?

They're bulimic. It's a mental illness. They probably do find it insulting, at least when they can work up the nerve to do it... it wasn't always that way. But wasn't it Oprah who had a bunch of the crackpots on her show where they were starting to claim eating disorders were a lifestyle choice?

Same thing here. If you get enough mentally ill people together in one place, they can convince themselves that their perceived numbers alone make them not mentally ill.

I can't tell if you're playing devil's advocate or one of the mentally ill, and I don't care nearly enough to read your comment carefully to try to figure it out.