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People who choose to have kids tend to lean very practical and no-nonsense relative to those of us who don’t. They don’t process in this angsty way. In fact they tend to get religious/philosophical if they *can’t* have kids for some reason like medical issues
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but consider ’s bias in the other direction and also like look at JBP for a clue that tons of people are starving for language and frameworks that let them interpret responsibilities like parenting in a solemn way that’s associated with the sacred
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I’m simply going by observations of my fairly large sample of friends with kids and how they actually typically think. I’m sure there atypical angsty parents exist. They’re just not that common.
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but what’s the sampling methodology? people might be likely to conceal, falsify, or otherwise fail to express these things in casual smalltalk, kind of by definition of smalltalk, especially if the culture lacks language to talk about it
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Vgr, you’re arguing more selection effect than a treatment effect, right? I could buy that but fwiw I’d say the treatment effect is also significant ime. Having kids feels meaningful, encourages regular habits, and often keeps one so busy there’s not as much time to angst.
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