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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by nemo44x on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:49AM (#24420393)
Keeping within the original context of “I should get extra time for my personal obligations” based on a premise of “I choose not to have kids” - I’m saying no, you don’t.

I am explicitly privileging society allowing additional time for parenting. It should not be a game of everyone gets x-days. “Use them to go to a ball game or take care of your kids. Your choice.”. It’s equivocating raiding kids with personal obligations. Our biology drives most of us to want to create life and a just society should appreciate that. Putting it on the same level as personal interests doesn’t make sense to me.

And to clarify as I have in other responses - I’m not saying it is the purpose of life. But that it’s pretty much the biological purpose. We have infinite other purposes and it’s up to each individual to find theirs and their priorities. As a society though I think we can and should privilege the raising of children.

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