I can understand people who don't personally want to have children. I can't understand people who have contempt for children, and (typically) contempt for the human legacy they make salient. It's a scary thing when a person's self-loathing is too big to fit their own skin alone
I was going to say I'd never met anyone who had contempt for children. But when I thought about it, some of the teachers in the schools I went to may have. So maybe adults who feel this way hide it from other adults...
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I think it may be a generational thing. It was already a pretty common sentiment when I was in college — and I went to a midwestern state school. Pairs well with the belief that human beings are toxic to the planet, or that human civilization is a fundamentally rapacious endeavor
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It’s a self defeating ideology. From the perspective of “natural selection” these people are just unfit, so their genes won’t spread.
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you can find a sample of the sentiment (among very valid posts as well) at http://reddit.com/r/childfree
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some teachers might like children but think that life is cruel and that exposing them to cruelty in a controlled environment is the way to teach them how to deal with it. to some extent everyone agreees with this.
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