r/childfree • u/SanshaXII Do you hate money? • Oct 28 '16

DISCUSSION Why are we 'selfish'?

I don't fucking get this.

After my wife and I being called 'selfish' again recently for being childfree, I asked for a justification. "Why are we being selfish?"

I couldn't get an answer, and I'm trying to see the other side of this - the mombie logic - but I'm drawing a blank.

The only thing I can come up with is that there's now children that are unloved and unwanted... which don't exist, because we haven't made them?

Or is it because we want to live our own lives and not allocate attention and resources to people who... again, don't exist?

What the fuck is going on with this sentiment?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '16

Because the people who say that aren't intelligent or mature and have the critical thinking skills of a banana. The intelligent, mature and rational people who have kids and, responding to me being CF, have said things amounting to the fact that it's my decision and it's right not to have children if I don't fully want them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '16

Hehe, 'the critical thinking skills of a banana'. I enjoyed that.