I wonder if people often have children because of existential dread, if that somehow lessens it from a biological stand point.
People usually have children over selfish reasons, even if the child wasn't intended, which probably happens a lot.
Having a child for a semblance of immortality, is that inherently selfish to you?
Sure, why wouldn't it be?
People either wanted the child, or they ended up with one in the persuit of sexual pleasure. Both being selfish reasons. If it's right or wrong to be selfish in this case is beside the point.
Just figured I'd ask, a lot go into notions of The Biological Imperative when it comes to stuff like 'spreading one's genes'.
While I'm not one of these people, a lot would claim it's selfish, decadent, or even degenerate to not procreate.
It is degenerate not to procreate though. We're lucky people do it.
Don't tell me you're one of those people who thinks we aren't overpopulating?
We're an invasive species.
Dude. I live in a land larger than the United States with a population of 38 million.
Are most of us in the world starving ? No.
I think our species has some type of mechanism that prevents us from over populating though, and it isn't just war or weaponized viruses.
There's a use for degeneracy and a calling apparantly.
Take Japan for example. The place is severely overpopulated, yet look what happened to them. I'm reading here that by 2036, one third of Japan will be over the age of 65.
Japanese people are not procteating as much and a lot of it has to do with culture and economy. They are workaholics, 7 days a week I think. Dating and connecting with members of the opposite sex isn't a major priority over there. We'll see an accelerated decline in the Japanese population in our golden years. Japanese government will actually pay it's citizens to procreate cause they know there'll be that death gap where the old will outweigh the young, while the young will be far and fewer within themselves.
In the west we're starting to see a fallout between the sexes. Marriage is bullshit, while it's becoming more common for men to be virgins as they approach their prime. Of course those guys are beta while the more rare alphas are the few banging the many chicks. ( modern western women have more partners in their lifetime, and it's the chads )
Degeneracy comes in many forms. It's not just homosexuality. One might say I'm a degenerate for not having any children and I really couldn't argue that. I'm getting some tonight just for the hell of it, and how we go about preventing pregnancy has become an art we've gotten good at.
The 2021 model simp will exhaust themselves in their burning desire for those girls they fund and follow eventually buying a life-size sex doll that's specified to their satisfaction.
Those dolls will be made robotic and more life-like, other times made like an illustrated character. Ai. They will be customizable and more common and even more financially practical. Like Ex Machina. Men will be calling it a day early. They'll make them less creepy over time as technology advances and they'll seem more natural and a broader range of men and women will hook up with these things.
Degeneracy. It keeps the balance. It's always around as we populate and intensifies when we're conjested.
Cut off the electricity and we'll see an even more intense form of degeneracy, worse than hurrican Katrina, were everyone will need a weapon and they'll most likely use it at some point, guarding their veggi garden from the neighbors. Technology is to us as nectar is to the bee. We can't survive in these numbers without it, we'd become lawless on our way back to the stoneage.
In the grand scheme of things when we're really overpopulated we'll depopulate ourselves. Nature is both chaotic and harmonious, and no matter how hard we try, we'll never separate ourselves from it.