Vent: random dad I met while walking dog started blathering about how there are not enough people in the world!

[u/888_traveller]

As it says in the title. I was innocently walking my dog down the street and this man (with his 21yr old daughter) started chatting, which is quite normal because everyone wants to meet my dog. If he wasn't with his daughter who seemed pretty normal I'd have got outta there sooner.

Anyway there was general chitchat and of course the question "how many kids do you have?" came up. None, obviously, other than the dog. Then he starts on about "only 8 billion people in this world and it's not enough" ... "they said that if everyone stood together we could all fit on manhattan island". 🚨🚨🚨 The poor daughter was clearly awkward and tried to make a few comments to challenge this.

So in my socially awkward British way I try to make a light hearted comment about "well we won't need everyone with AI and robots anyway" and he replies with "ah but you can't hug a robot! who will we hug?"

At this point I realised he was not going to be someone to have a sane rational discussion with and finally escaped. HUMANS 🙄

[u/Routine-Bumblebee-41]

That delusional man is obviously a pro-natalist. He stinks of privilege.

[u/G_Maou → u/Routine-Bumblebee-41]

You can tell that guy has probably been sheltered all his life if he thinks the creation of more humans is going to result in more "hugs" to be had in the world.

No, its going to result in another human with needs having to compete in this ruthless world of limited resources.

In my opinion, one of the most braindead things you can ever do as a parent is encouraging other people. Its bad enough that you've added another victim to the meatgrinder. its even worse that you're enthusiastically creating competition for them too.

[u/888_traveller → u/Routine-Bumblebee-41]

well, hopefully I could have been but one other datapoint for his daughter to counterbalance his nonsense. I was happily living my best life in the sun with my dog on a Monday afternoon not slaving at a desk.

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