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How or why people feel so entitled to insist that other people have kids is beyond me (lemmy.world)

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[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But they can't choose to be born. Having children is intrinsically a non-consensual act.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's not really relevant to the point I'm making but, yeah, it's not a consensual act to have offspring. Nothing that's ever been born has chosen to be born. But countless things have been happy they were.

In the words of Stephen Colbert, "It's a gift to exist."

Obviously quite dependent on circumstances...