[giantg2]

"What are the chances my kid – the individual – will lead a relatively peaceful, fulfilling life for the next 70-90 years?"

Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents? Etc

What gives you fulfillment varies based on perspective. Peace is fragile and basically non-existent across one's entire lifespan.

[malauxyeux]

> Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents?

No. But it's not really relevant to me.

My grandparents' generation was largely motivated by religious faith (and lack of birth control) to have a bunch of kids.

My parents' generation mostly lost the religious motivation, but inherited the inertia without questioning it. It's not to say they didn't want their kids, but having kids was just "what you did".

None of that's the case for me.

[giantg2]

Sorry, I'll be more specific - do you wish you were never born?

[malauxyeux]

I think the closest I come to a "yes" would be a sort of underlying feeling of nihilism. The universe is big; life is short. That kind of thing.

But if I had a kid and e.g., watched that kid become a climate refugee, I think I'd regret my decision to make that kid.