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PretzelPiratetoday at 6:33 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm almost 40 and never wanted kids. As a kid, everyone would say things in the context of "when you have kids of your own..." and I always knew that I didn't want them.

If I lived in a world without reliable birth control, I may have ended up with kids I didn't want, but I'm lucky that I have other options.

Kids shouldn't be raised by people who don't want them, and not everyone is born with the biological drive to reproduce.

Your view that [most] people are born wanting kids may be biased from societal pressure and a historical lack of options.


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cutterl6today at 8:51 AM

For millions of years your ancestors have been fighting and toiling, surviving famines, wars, winters and droughts, but the line ends with you because the small hats conned you into a pointless life of nihilism and hedonism. gg

Stop sharing your opinions. You will literally be extinct soon. Your existence doesn't matter.