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Comment by sorcerer-mar

9 hours ago

Do you want your kids to grow up in a single-room household with 4 adults and 8 children?

If this were the only way they would exist, then it would not stop me from bringing them into being. My ancestors made the right choice. I will not deny my genetics their legacy.

If I choose other conditions, it’s not because of trauma but because comfort is good.

  • Right, you prefer other conditions because they're better.

    We have decades of research to show that more space and privacy is not merely a matter of comfort. Or, if it is, that "comfort" affects more things than one would expect.

    I've already linked to them above.

    • I grew up in conditions you would never countenance and I’m incredibly well adjusted. What value are your systems when they lead to your trauma. You are constantly traumatized and I am not, despite facing conditions you could not believe.

      Either I am inherently an übermensch or my methods are better. You have your loneliness epidemics, your PTSD, and your therapy. I don’t.

      Or to put it evocatively:

      https://x.com/pjayevans/status/1612904509575139328?s=46

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