1. parents almost uniformly say they get many emotional benefits from children. 2. bosses don't *necessarily* exert unreasonable control either. the issue is potential. 3. this is really not always the case at all. 4. again, this is an incredibly blinkered assertion.https://twitter.com/Hosea910/status/1338601606045192194 …
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Replying to @nberlat
You don't think "getting fed from the day they were born till they leave the house" benefits kids?
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Replying to @4completegames @nberlat
"getting fed from the day they were born till they leave the house" is almost always conditional, and the conditions are frequently actual atrocities
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Replying to @506510713 @4completegames
yeah; if we agree that food and shelter should be rights in a just society, providing kids with food and shelter is...not necessarily particularly virtuous.
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All of this discourse starts with the idea that babies who had no choice in being born come into this world completely destitute and this is good and just, and parents choosing to give them food and shelter into adulthood is an act of great generosity I consider this monstrous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
There's always a cold little core inside me that resists sympathy when even the nicest parents start with the bitching about how hard having kids is If you had it forced on you, I'm really really sorry But most of the time they didn't, it was 100% voluntary and chosen
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And you know who really has to live with the consequences of your bad life decisions, the kid God, I wish it were just something like owning a boat where after a year of trying to prove you're a competent and responsible enough person to own a boat you could just sell it
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