Mild rant. I don't want kids, but now im at that age where all my stepsisters, sister and close friend all have kids now. My last childless stepsister is pregnant and they want to facetime the gender reveal. I just can't feign my excitement for this shit anymore. oh yay, another white american baby, how special. I guess she really just made the mistake of having a kid after the people i care about most(sister and close friend) already had kids so i just don't care anymore(in addition to not being close with my stepsisters, our parents married and we were all young adults basically).

But this got me thinking about how people talk about their pregnancies. The selfless reason is bringing a life into the world(lol) but i literally can't think of another selfless reason. They will want the kid to be like them, they will try to raise it like them, they probably also are thinking about how a child can care for them when they are older. Two people think they are really great and made something super special and im fucking over it.

  • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    We conceptualize them around an ideal, universal person who is no more or less real than an unborn baby. If it’s wrong to do it to Deborah then it’s wrong to do it to an hypothetical unborn person.

    Where does abortion fit in here?

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      They're not people yet, and never will be. The argument the previous users present with having kids is that they will be born, and therefore will be people.

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Ah, I was missing the implicit “when they become a person”. Fair enough.