You failed to, You provided a perfect example of "my family is more important than you" to the poster. The original poster may be in that stage between young adolescence before getting a partner and buying into the whole family shindig, may have tried and failed to build one, or may just be so technically disenfranchised with everyone else they read about's myopia, that they've just opted out.

You don't chastise a misanthrope. That makes it worse. You extend a helping hand to help crack at jaded sentiment to remind them there's still beauty to be found beneath the piles of refuse they may be surrounded by at the time.

I implore both of you to reexamine life as a non-traditional family builder.

HN is intended for "curious discussion". The person I responded to was not providing that.

> You don't chastise a misanthrope. That makes it worse.

I wasn't intending to make it better. It's not my responsibility to fix someone who thinks all humans deserve to die for offending nature. It's their responsibility, which probably requires help from a therapist, not an anonymous internet commenter.

> I implore both of you to reexamine life as a non-traditional family builder.

Who said I'm either traditional or a family builder?

I'm neither, but I was born with relatives, and those relatives are having children. So are my friends and many of the people around me.