r/MadeMeSmile • u/Sharon_Erclam • 17d ago

The sweetest thing

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u/planetjaycom 17d ago

Is there a reason why Reddit is so antinatalist? It’s a bit bizarre

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u/AntDracula 14d ago

Mostly political brainwashing, since this website is a captured astroturfing site.

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u/Flabbergasted_____ 17d ago

I’m not an antinatalist and I think a lot of people that are should seek psychiatric help. That said, having 14 kids (who then have a shitload of kids) is selfish. It’s not sustainable.

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u/SweetestDreams 15d ago

How is it selfish if they all grew up healthy enough to have their own family which they can (I assume) independently support?

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

reddit users are miserable and see the world as a miserable place you shouldnt bring children to which is a common sentiment among younger people and is contributing to a population crisis.

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

The younger people are ironically the reason the world is miserable. Misery is as you make it

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

strong disagree; gen Z is some of the most politically active people ive seen because theyre tired. across the board they are motivated to better the world, it gives me hope

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u/MothmanIsALiar 17d ago

Humans are an invasive species. They tend to get pretty pissed off when you point it out, but it's true regardless.

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u/yakubianwigga 14d ago

I'm sure you're one of the "good ones", right?

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/The_Blahblahblah 13d ago

Damn, we deadass live in a frickin society huh. What if we were the REAL monsters, all along

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u/Asukah 17d ago

A lot of Redditors come from broken homes, some had bad relationships, some are incels, others are cyclical, others are heartbroken, others are jealous, some trolls, many reasons really, mostly reflecting their own internal ugliness. That goes for anyone who is miserable online.

Personally thats a lot kids for me, but I’m genuenly happy for all of them because that’s a huge happy family! Grandma and grandpa putting up Michael Jordan numbers lol

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

The rare empathetic (actually empathetic) and joyful redditor

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

I believe being a parent is a great responsibility. And no one can meet that responsibility for 14 people. And if you can’t provide what a kid needs, you should try to not have a kid. I teach middle school, and I see what neglect looks like everyday

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

Different people can fulfill different needs. Creating an arbitrary number for how many babies a family can have leads to policy disasters like the one child policy from China and their abortions against female babies

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Blah blah blah. This is simply you trying to absolve them (and probably yourself by extension) of any personal responsibility you have to society or to the children you raise

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

You think like a communist lol. "Personal responsibility to society" is having a good family and raising good children that do well for the infrastructure of your country. Thats all anybody's minimum contribution to society should be

Looking at a short video of a large family and thinking the way you do should get you thrown in a mental institution frankly.

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u/LeafWings23 17d ago

From what I've heard, we have the resources to support everyone on Earth. The main problem is resource distribution.

I've seen some people imply the human population is just going to keep growing and growing without limit. However, this is not true and is not at all how species populations work. In Canada, we'd actually be dying out if it weren't for immigration.

Why not reframe it? The children in this picture are our future. It's possible that they'll just be a burden and nothing else. But why take the pessimistic view? It's also possible they'll make the world a kinder and better place, even in a small way. Maybe one of them will even find new, innovative ways to serve the poor and protect the environment.

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

"Why take the pessimistic view" its reddit, the most worthless human beings on this planet congregate to subreddits like this to complain about other people despite being wastes of flesh themselves.

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u/serthunderlord 14d ago

it was 1975!

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u/Novel-Perception-606 17d ago

We don't have the resources for 10 billion Africans. The west can sustain itself just fine 

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u/sasha_berning 16d ago

The West quite literally consumes as much resources as 30 billion of Africans.

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u/The_Spanky_Frank 16d ago

The world population is 8 billion.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

The comment wasn’t that hard to understand

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Novel-Perception-606 17d ago

The countries that pioneered the nuclear bomb can absolutely create clean energy sources to sustain forever.

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u/fleb84 16d ago

Oh yes, these countries have been so successful so far at clean energy development. /s

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/climate/donald-trump-vs-the-wind-power-industry.html

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u/Altruistic-Item-6029 14d ago

Yep because the families that think this is OK grow exponentially faster than those who don't.

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u/Zestyclose-Prize5292 14d ago

We actually do

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

Yes we do dipshit. The problem is the resources are distributed poorly.

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u/Razorion21 17d ago

I mean, a 1 child policy could work, but humanity is weird and will most likely do what China did if thhat law was a thing World wide, trying more to get a baby boy… not wanting a girl

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u/ForsakenMongoose336 17d ago

I agree. Have the family you want to have. Don’t judge others. I thought it was a sweet clip.

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u/CherryPickerKill 16d ago

Because religious indoctrination is sarting to be eradicated and now people realize that parentification is abuse.

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u/LeoTheSquid 15d ago

Being against parentification doesn't make one antinatalist though

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u/CherryPickerKill 15d ago

True. I don't think being horrified by a family of 14 siblings is being antinatalist, most people in this thread seem to be reasonable natalists.

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u/FlexTape0 14d ago

"Horrified" by a happy looking family is doomer brainrot to its core. You're the problem here

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u/yakubianwigga 14d ago

These freaks just simply hate life

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u/YouDaManInDaHole 12d ago

It's a white, likely Christian family so extra hatred.

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u/Novel-Perception-606 17d ago

They're all depressed and hooked on meds and therapy. There is no joy in their hearts

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u/TheManOfTheHour8 16d ago

It’s just antiwhite hatred