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Comment by kcindric | Hacker News Reader

I agree, but I'm interested to see will we see the fall during our generation or the next one will experience it. Bringing children to this world seems selfish.

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I actually believe we're in one of the best times to bring children into this world. Child mortality has dramatically fallen.

We just live in an age where we're hyper-aware of our actions. I believe if we get out of an emergency, "we're all going to die" mindset, we may actually have a chance.

Child mortality is the least of it, however. You have to consider what the world is going to be like in 20,30 and 40 years from now and factor that into your decision. You have to consider what you'd be asking them to live through.

Bringing children into this world isn't doing them any favors; at all.

Children use to be born with a high chance of killing their moms during birth. Then half of them wouldn't make it to 18. Then could probably expect to live and work as a farmer under the control of someone else at the threat of violence for their whole life. Famine, disease, and many other unimaginable problems plagued their lives.

Things are literally the best they've ever been. They could get much worse but any reasonable prediction still puts us ahead of the expected life of someone in the 19th century.

If you don't want to have children, that's your choice. You don't have to justify it by putting your morality on other people.

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