RE: atheism and children
August 5, 2015 at 8:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2015 at 8:28 pm by Regina.)
I can't speak for how I'll feel in the future, I'm only 21, but as things stand I don't plan on having any. If I do have any, I'll adopt rather than have my own.
I don't dislike children at all, I'm just a bit of a pessimist about the world. I've had issues with depression in my life, and I can't bring a kid into the world with the possibility that they might have to deal with some of the shit I've had. I don't like the world either, between fanatic violent lunatics, the preventable financial crisis, a classist elitist society and the elephant in the room - glabal warming - that nobody wants to deal with, I don't want to bring a kid into this to deal with all the shit that comes with being here. It's not worth it. All those things are preventable, but I don't trust people to prevent them.
I don't dislike children at all, I'm just a bit of a pessimist about the world. I've had issues with depression in my life, and I can't bring a kid into the world with the possibility that they might have to deal with some of the shit I've had. I don't like the world either, between fanatic violent lunatics, the preventable financial crisis, a classist elitist society and the elephant in the room - glabal warming - that nobody wants to deal with, I don't want to bring a kid into this to deal with all the shit that comes with being here. It's not worth it. All those things are preventable, but I don't trust people to prevent them.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
