If you have brought a human into the world without explaining your excuse to them very clearly (and by the way, they don't have to agree that it was a good idea), then...
...you shouldn't wonder why at the age of 10 they are being noncompliant to your list of daily and weekly chores or any other expectation you have of them, for that matter.
You can't just say daft things like, "If you don't bath, you will stink," or, "You must do your homework if you want to have a job one day, young lady!"
There are too many assumptions built into these glibly communicated consequences.
There are too many assumptions built into these glibly communicated consequences.
Children are not obliged to accept YOUR reason for breeding them as THEIR reason for continuing to live either.
And they are deffffffinitely not obliged to be grateful to you for having procreated or for having fed them and changed their nappies.
People are very concerned that their child should be 'independent' and 'contribute to the economy'. And although those words are abjectly oversimplified, I get why in the current dispensation it is useful for the majority of people to be able to work for their own money, but...
Surely you didn't breed the kid for that? Who ever said, "I didn't use contraception, because I wanted to contribute a human workunit to the economy"?
OK, some Nazis and the like possibly said something to that effect, but I don't think that kind of reasoning is mainstream.
OK, some Nazis and the like possibly said something to that effect, but I don't think that kind of reasoning is mainstream.
When you bring people into the world without their consent, you had better give them a lot of support and choices to compensate for your decision.
A few months ago, some antinatalist ran a series of Twitter polls asking how people would prefer for their kid to die one day. Like: suicide, cancer, car accident, starvation, old age after prolonged dementia, execution as a martyr... I can't remember them all.
Although this was rather grim, I thought it was actually quite a good question, because we're all gonna die, and if it matters to you how people die, you should probably prepare them for your preferred form of death, even though fortune may deal them some other sideways blow.
OK, I'm gonna pause there to first consider how to put a content warning on the next bit about Karel Schoeman who chose to die and Gafsa Bux who chose to live, and my friend who is being denied a DNR and another friend who's had a DNR forced on her.
Lemme just put this here for now, because I think that the disabled opponents of assisted suicice don't get nearly as much attention as the nondisabled people in favour of it. notdeadyet.org
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