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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by holler on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:40AM (#34896253)
What a sad and cynical view of life. All the negatives you mention are natural parts of living, of being alive, of the circle of life.

You're leaving out all of the joy, the triumph, the beauty, and the awe of having a brief moment of consciousness on this planet, in this universe.

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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by Dalewyn on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:46AM (#34896352)
If you're insinuating I'm miserable, you are wrong.

I'm plenty happy living my life as I see fit, and I don't see marriage as a potential addition to that happiness. It's as simple as that.

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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by mcphage on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:17PM (#34902903)
> I'm plenty happy living my life as I see fit

Then why would you imagine parents tell their kids that life is "fucking horrible", instead of telling them that life is "plenty happy"? Like, everything you describe, you have or will go through as well, and apparently you don't find it to be "shit. Absolute shit".

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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by Dalewyn on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:37PM (#34903996)
I'm happy, or at least as happy as I can be, but I don't consider the cycle of life as something I want to see repeated with successive generations.

One lap around the course is plenty. If others want to bring more horses in, they're welcome to; as for me I'm not interested.

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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by mcphage on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @07:39PM (#34905242)
Sure, there’s plenty of reasons to not have kids, I do get that. But “I’m happy with life but I think that everyone else’s is horrible misery” is an odd position to hold.
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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by Dalewyn on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:38AM (#34907908)
>I think that everyone else’s is horrible misery

When did I ever say that? I don't care about others' lives, it's none of my business.

I find life, as far as I experience it, to be overall horrible. I'm plenty happy regardless, but it's nonetheless not something I'm interested in foisting onto my hypothetical kids.

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Re:Most young men are single. Most young women are not by mcphage on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:32AM (#34911029)
> not something I'm interested in foisting onto my hypothetical kids

Nor is anyone asking you to. Just, don't go around assuming that parents tell their kids that "life is, on average, fucking horrible"—instead, they show their kids how to be happy, like you are.

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