- Joined
- Apr 28, 2019
I think a very valid point here is that DINKs probably have decent jobs and pay taxes which means they are also entitled to social benefits.You can contribute to society in many ways other than having kids. Most people work or at least volunteer places, for example.
Yeah, I have thought about this a lot and hope to god that nothing bad happens to my kids. I really don’t know what I would do if one of them was killed. I’d be a total empty shell of a person, but it doesn’t mean having them wasn’t worth it.Life has no guarantees of anything. Maybe you have the perfect child and as an adult with the brightest future and intentions, he dies in a car crash by some criminal being chased by the police (this happened to one of the people who brought me into the Church). That is insanely tragic, but doesn't negate the fact you should at least try.
I also felt this way for a long time (screeching kids in public being a nuisance) but I do have way more empathy for it now. Still, I also see so many parents that won’t take their screeching child away from the public to comfort/instruct them that it makes my blood boil. Too many parents are permissive of letting their kids make a scene without trying to get them out and do something about it. Minorities seem to be the worst about this.Yeah nah given that just hearing babies screech in the store makes me instinctively want to drop-kick them, I'll pass. Me being the sole caregiver of one of those things would never end well for it.
I also love my cats but it’s funny how your priorities shift once you have human babies in your life. I know people without kids that end up spending tens of thousands of dollars on their dying cat and I just don’t get it.Cats don't have to go to school. Humans have to eat 2000 calories a day, while cats need 330 calories at the HIGH end. The longest living cat lived only like 35 years and is an outlier, while most humans live to 60. Cats cost way less than kids.