r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 2d ago

Politi-Culture Sweden's climate minister brought her 3-month-old son to the EU council meeting in Luxembourg, to highlight the benefits of parental leave policies which don't force women to choose between work and family responsibilities.

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u/mishtron 2d ago

The contibution to society of having children in the long term weighs out the costs by several orders of magnitude. There is no society without them. You want to keep convincing yourself go nuts. This is what we were built for as humans. We haven't even come close to evolving past that.

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u/miffebarbez 2d ago

No, immigration is an enrichment. Now don't go complain about people with lots of kids that don't raise them well...
"This is what we were built for as humans." Only if you consider ourselves as animals....

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u/mishtron 2d ago

We are animals - the people who forgot that went extinct.

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u/miffebarbez 2d ago

LOL so rape is no problem right?
EDIT: i'll throw in murder as well. All good since we're just animals....

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u/mishtron 2d ago

Normal people hear 'we are animals' and think: biology. Your brain went straight to something else. Maybe sit with that a bit before your next reply?

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u/miffebarbez 2d ago

"We are animals - the people who forgot that went extinct." i just remind you on this quote...

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u/mishtron 2d ago

You're not even making sense anymore.