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Why do some people not want children?
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Venkatesh Rao
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279w ago
"You either give birth to yourself or to someone else."
Not sure about the source of this quote, but it pretty much sums up all the analysis needed behind this particular decision for me.
Some people manage to do both, but you have to have a demented amount of existential energy to do that.
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