[ultramundane8]

This thread is absolutely bananas. I actually read most of it at 759 comments.

The short version is that people with kids are insanely defensive about it. In many cases, they have literally rewritten their brains to see reproduction as exclusively good and necessary. If you suggest anything else, you will be swiftly brigaded and condemned.

Those without children are all over the place. Their opinions vary from complete disinterest to strong resentment of parents.

[762236]

The brain instantly rewrites itself when the kid pops out. Such a weird experience.

[thinkingemote]

> reproduction as exclusively good and necessary

If reproduction was bad and unnecessary you, me, none of us would exist. Reproduction is fundamentally essential and necessary for life itself. Bananas indeed.

7/10

[ulmas]

"rewritten their brains"... conceiving, carrying, birthing, raising a child is not like picking a favorite beverage or ice cream flavour, and changing the choice as you evolve. It's not something you set your mind about, and change it a couple weeks later as a result of a mood swing, or because of an influential article or a comment on the web.

"reproduction ... good and necessary"... people don't get kids because it's "good", and certainly not because it's "necessary"... They're a little more to it.

and no, you either read all of the 759 comments, or you didn't. Also, skim through ≠ read.

[stormbeard]

You're not really making a point here. If you think they are wrong, then tell us why you think this. Shooting down the comment and providing no real input is unproductive.