I am fully against forcing kids into this world with the way things are currently going. If I see a future I'd want to live in I'll think about kids.

Fair perspective.

Honestly, for me the joy of life was front-loaded. Childhood was great, lot of stress and alienation since, with joy taken where I can find it but not a typical condition. My almost-six-year-old seems to be loving childhood as well, so I hope that even if things go really pear-shaped for civilization in the next couple decades he'll regard having lived as a net win.

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