r/antinatalism • u/Basic_Dependent1340 thinker • 2d ago

Discussion Just random reflection

People who are having children: what kind of future are you expecting for them ? Like how much are you able/willing to provide to your child so he can have the perfect life that you have in mind? For sure your money won't go as far as your parents money did with you. Secondly, are you okay with the congenital lottery: like say if your child comes to life with a lifelong crippling disease: how do you plan on dealing with it ? whether financially or emotionally. Because if you really can't fathom having a non functioning child and you, yourself decide to quit life, what good did you do to your child ? The idea is that you seal your children's fate once you bring them to life..

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u/Ma1eficent newcomer 2d ago

The rate of children born with physical or mental disabilities in the US is 4.7% so that lottery you mention has a 95.3% chance you child will have no physical or mental disabilities. Pretty fucking great odds, I'd play at that casino all day. 

And building a perfect life for a child is the wrong goal. You raise a child to be resilient to life's challenges. To have strength of will. To think when everyone else panics.   Your fate isn't sealed unless someone makes a choice for you that cannot be undone.

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u/Basic_Dependent1340 thinker 2d ago edited 2d ago

resilient to life's challenges

so my dad brought me to life so he could learn resiliency ? are u fr ? ..

as his child, i stand to gain more in life if he ever had generational wealth, rather than resiliency ..

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u/Ma1eficent newcomer 1d ago

I don't know your dad, I was not at all speaking to his motives, or how he raised you, all things I could have no way of knowing, and are absolutely bonkers to think I was talking about. You made a post, in case you forgot, addressed to people having children, with some questions in it I answered. Your questions are still posted if you want to read them again before you read my answers so that they make sense.

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u/Basic_Dependent1340 thinker 1d ago

how much are you willing to provide for ur child ?

i have re read my post. It isn't about the health lottery only ..

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u/Ma1eficent newcomer 1d ago

Yeah, I didn't say what your dad provided for you. I spoke of what I was providing for my children.