> in order to do those sweet things that we 'feel like' doing

You mean like not dying ? So basically, it's work or die. We have a word for that, it's called slavery. But wait, in our capitalist system I get to choose my own slavedriver, wow, that changes everything... NOT.

If you get a dog, you're expected to take care of that dog for it's entire life. Yet, if you produce a child it's somehow acceptable to abandon it after 18 years and expect it to take care of itself. It never asked to be born, yet it has to deal with the financial consequences of a decision someone else made. It's like taking an 80+ year mortgage and expecting someone else to pay for it after 18 years.

If you're going to have kids, you should take care of them for their entire lives.

Then what do you do when your parents die? And someone else is supposed to take care of your parents while they are taking care of you? At some point, people need to take care of themselves. Maybe some aren't ready at 18 to be out there on their own, but you need to take responsibility for your own life at some point.

On a related note, you should know that depression causes cognitive distortions. You should really take a look at this if you haven't seen it already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck%27s_cognitive_triad

Do you find people often disagree with your views on life? Is it possible that your reasoning is potentially being made on imperfect information since depression filters out all the positive aspects of everything?

> Then what do you do when your parents die?

The money should be there (e.g. in a trust fund) before conception.

> And someone else is supposed to take care of your parents while they are taking care of you?

Yes, their parents, obviously.

Nothing really changes relative to now for people who want to reproduce, instead of paying for themselves they pay for their children. Only people who are childfree benefit, which is a nice incentive to reduce the population.

> you need to take responsibility for your own life at some point

No, I do not. I didn't create this life, how can I be responsible for it ?

> On a related note, you should know that depression causes cognitive distortions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism

Sigh, well if you really want to be depressed, I suppose it's a free country. Speaking as someone who used to be depressed, all that depressive realism stuff is total BS. When you completely filter out all the positive aspects of everything and focus on the negative only, you're just not seeing the complete picture.

I’m not depressed though.

Okay. What were you doing CBT for?

I’m not doing CBT anymore. I used to for autism related anxiety issues but I stopped with therapy after my psychologist told me there was little left he could do for me.

Basically, psychology is just modern day quackery.

As I do not have autism, I cannot relate to your viewpoint. It is possible that psychology is not going to help you - but it did help me and has helped many people, so I wouldn't be so dismissive of it. My advice for you after days of going back and forth on here: you should try being a bit more open minded. I've met a lot of smart people who are right about a ton of things related to their area of expertise who think that this competency carries over to other areas where they are less knowledgeable. It's best to avoid being one of those people.