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Think about all the “good” things we as humans do in the world. Now how much of that is only for the benefit of humanity. We label species as “invasive” species while animals like pandas we force to keep alive cause of cuteness.

~~Thrre’s~~ other things like cancer which of course sucks but my own mom had breast cancer. But you know what’s even better than that? Not being born at all. Not having to experience the eventual decline in health. Getting older. Becoming disabled. This is just the reality. We all have those happy moments in life. But eventually it all comes to an end.

There’s other things like cancer which of course sucks but my own mom had breast cancer. Every year my company does this thing to raise funds to fight breast cancer. Yes let’s find the cure. Yes, let’s be optimistic. But you know what’s even better than that? Not being born at all. Isn’t it better to just avoid the whole thing entirely? Not having to experience the eventual decline in health. Getting older. Becoming disabled. This is just the reality. We all have those happy moments in life. But eventually it all comes to an end.

And people are like “yeah I want my genes to live through with my descendants, I want to live a legacy.” Anytime I heard that I just cringe so hard. What legacy? You’re going to be forgotten in 3 generations anyways. I bet you can’t even name your great-grandparents.

And there’s 8 billion people in this world. It’s easy to think in US that we still have plenty of land to raise a family. But I dare those same folks to travel to India and China. Really experience what overpopulation is like. When entire families have to live in a slum that’s smaller than your 1b1b apartment. When people there don’t even have access to clean drinking water. When there’s so many diseases like malaria, TB, etc. But here in the western world we’re sheltered from all of that.

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 Think about all the “good” things we as humans do in the world. Now how much of that is only for the benefit of humanity. We label species as “invasive” species while animals like pandas we force to keep alive cause of cuteness.
-Thrre’s other things like cancer which of course sucks but my own mom had breast cancer. But you know what’s even better than that? Not being born at all. Not having to experience the eventual decline in health. Getting older. Becoming disabled. This is just the reality. We all have those happy moments in life. But eventually it all comes to an end.
+There’s other things like cancer which of course sucks but my own mom had breast cancer. Every year my company does this thing to raise funds to fight breast cancer. Yes let’s find the cure. Yes, let’s be optimistic. But you know what’s even better than that? Not being born at all. Isn’t it better to just avoid the whole thing entirely? Not having to experience the eventual decline in health. Getting older. Becoming disabled. This is just the reality. We all have those happy moments in life. But eventually it all comes to an end.
 And people are like “yeah I want my genes to live through with my descendants, I want to live a legacy.” Anytime I heard that I just cringe so hard. What legacy? You’re going to be forgotten in 3 generations anyways. I bet you can’t even name your great-grandparents.
+And there’s 8 billion people in this world. It’s easy to think in US that we still have plenty of land to raise a family. But I dare those same folks to travel to India and China. Really experience what overpopulation is like. When entire families have to live in a slum that’s smaller than your 1b1b apartment. When people there don’t even have access to clean drinking water. When there’s so many diseases like malaria, TB, etc. But here in the western world we’re sheltered from all of that.

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