If you accept that caring for the wellbeing of your kids is inherently meaningful then you must also accept there is meaning inherent in taking care of your own self :3
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DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Having kids (one of whom is special needs) plucked me out of the nihilism well that I was drowning in. I’m so thankful for them. Now, I don’t even have time to think or contemplate life. lol
Carnelian@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
baines@lemmy.cafe 17 hours ago
only while the kids exist as you forced them into existence thereby incurring the responsibility
for a thought experiment, imagine you could see your entire life and decide to be born or not based in your mind at the point of death
what would be the point of living a ‘bad’ life?
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I would personally have chosen No, and it’s a big reason why I’m not going to have a kid. Very grateful that my wife agrees
Carnelian@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
only while the kids exist as you forced them into existence
Many parents have the same realization about their adopted children. You could argue that both types of parents are delusional but the causality isn’t relevant
imagine you could see your entire life
The capacity for imagining your whole life presupposes that you have already begun living, silly :3 but okay. Why would this primordial spirit be interested in life at all if it’s optional? Is living your life inherently worth considering, or something?
baines@lemmy.cafe 16 hours ago
choosing to take on the responsibility is the same imo
biological kid or not once you bring it home it’s then the same, feeling this for random strangers would be odd
acknowledging that a optional life would be skipped kinda is my point
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I’m sure they’ll be grateful for their chance to pick between being a soldier in the Water Wars, or maybe getting lucky enough to find a human job that pays in food and living accommodations.
Sorry to be that nihilist but I am so grateful for finding a partner that agrees that reproduction is wildly irresponsible to both the world, and that future being who you KNOW and cannot deny that existence will likely be worse for in basically the first time in human existence outside of the world wars and the Black Death.
If I were forced to switch places with a child today I would be pretty upset about the future I had been subject too. But they’re just so cute right? And all my friends are having them too!
Downvote away!
Ibuthyr@feddit.org 1 hour ago
You’re the absolute worst and completely useless. Fuck off with your bullshit opinions and grow the fuck up.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 16 minutes ago
Could you maybe put some effort into your response, explaining why you so strongly disagree with an opinion I’ve developed over a pretty long time? Because you’re the one that looks childish responding so emotionally
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 19 minutes ago
Oh ouch, my underdeveloped feelings
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 minutes ago
Nihilists can have, and love and care for, children.
It’s all about making your own meaning, and I imagine having kids is one way a lot of people do that.