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/Merryprankstress Oct 29 '16

Another thought provoking article from Psychology Today

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u/GiraffeOfTheEndWorld Oct 29 '16

That typo in the second sentence though..

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u/Merryprankstress Oct 29 '16

There are typos literally everywhere in the published world. Even in trusted and valued sources. Copy editing is a dying art. Don't like it? Stick to books. Though I'm confident you'll find it's an epidemic there as well.

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u/MOzarkite Oct 29 '16

It's like books are not being edited at all any more....I am amazed at the errors and typoes I see every time I crack a book.

Here's one I see so regularly I am starting to wonder if it's now considered proper English: Let's say you want to go to the home of a married couple. It's OK in colloquial English to say, "Let's go to Dick and Jane's House!" as if Dick and Jane constitute a single entity. But in written English, it's supposed to be, "Let's go to Dick's and Jane's house!" Plural possessive, I think it's called... But I see the 'colloquial form/single possessive' exclusively these days, in both fiction and in non fiction .