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munin | 6 years ago

> the only thing you can do

Don’t have kids.

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klenwell|6 years ago

  They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
     They may not mean to, but they do.
  They fill you with the faults they had
     And add some extra, just for you.

  But they were fucked up in their turn
    By fools in old-style hats and coats,
  Who half the time were soppy-stern
    And half at one another’s throats.

  Man hands on misery to man.
    It *melts off* like *an artic* shelf.
  Get out as early as you can,
    And don’t have any kids yourself.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...

mempko|6 years ago

Beautiful. Love the changes.

Will_Parker|6 years ago

So, breed a future full of inconsiderate people, I guess? If there's one best point thoughtful conservatives have, it's that for a sustainable planet, we need to value good people producing and raising the next generation.

The inability to understand this (ending in antinatalism at the extreme) is perhaps the root of my problems with the left side of politics. It's hard to get behind a side that is mathematically predestined to disappear completely.