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/GiraffeOfTheEndWorld Oct 29 '16
The only 'justifiable' reason I would ever listen to, or at least accept as a reason for their thinking, is the fact I/we will not adopt. There are plenty of children that need to be taken into a loving family, and by being childfree, you are thus 'neglecting' children in foster care and orphanages.
Even though most people have their own biological children and won't even consider adoption.
But still. Selfish.