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Is there any good reason to reproduce? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I'm not an anti-natalist nor am I planning to have children, but I am generally interested if there is a good reason to have children.

It is obvious that capitalism makes it hard to raise kids but even without capitalism, is there a good reason to bring new humans to earth?

I don't know am I caring too much?

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[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Like I said, if you don't want to have kids, that's fine, some great communists like Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao don't have kids either. You can use any reason to justify it, no one is forcing you to have kids. However, the consequence of not having kids is very clear, there will be less potential comrades on your side.

Also, if you cannot bring up your own kids to be socialists, how confident are you in radicalizing strangers?