Welcome to the conversation. You're late and confused so allow me to catch you up.
A lot of people on NOSTR are apparently idiots when it comes to logic and language so let me explicitly lay out my position:
I'm not anti-marriage.
I'm not anti-children.
I'm not anti-family.
The original claim that HODL made was "Marriage and family is essential for a full and happy life."
Paraphrasing the claim into If-Then statemene:
IF a person is to live a full and happy life, THEN that person must live a married life and build a family'.
That claim is false. For one thing, happiness is subjective. As an example, masochists exist and what gives masochists happiness, if delivered to non-masochists, would yield the opposite of happiness. I'm not a masochist but I can understand how one-size-fits-all doesn't fly merely as a result of that one example.
There are people who are contending with wartime injuries, workplace injuries, psychological traumas, childhood abuse, and straight up sterility that might prevent them from having kids. Not every being is meant to reproduce.
The reason I fired a shot at HODL is because his statement was incredibly cruel to people who, for reasons beyond their control, cannot have children, even though they would love to have children. I'm thinking about them and how they would feel reading HODL's post. He's an asshole pumping his own bags trying to seek validation from a bunch of morons online because despite his successes, he's still got a huge hole in his life that he doesn't know how to fill. Maybe if he wasn't such a fake Christian, that hole would fill.
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You are a racist 🤣
Schools need to take a much more significant
I had to look it up. It's referred to as "Illusory Superiority". Too many influencers, like him, display these behavioral characteristics.
the tone of it is the problem. encouraging it, saying it's good, that's fine. saying it's bad if you don't? not without qualification based on extenuating circumstances.
especially due to the deliberate destruction of the familial social fabric prosecuted by the communists for the last 100 years, especially women have become extremely unsuitable mentally for motherhood, and you can't waste your time with that, and if she's all about her "muh independence and strong woman blah fucking bitch nonsense" she's not going to be a good wife, or a good mother, and in some cases, she will be the next in the parade of oppressors for a person who was broken like those of us are who never were able to arrange even finding a suitable partner let alone actually being able to make the commitment.
i've never had money. that's a big one right there. i don't mean for a vain bitch who wants diamonds and pedicures, i mean just simply, she can't work, if she is to be a mother. her job is being a mother, for that time.
good luck finding women like that anywhere. you don't have to look far to discover that more than half of the (eligible) population is hypnotised consumer drones full of their own coolness and utterly unconcerned with anything that matters.
This a whole lot to say so little. You're being pedantic and unable or unwilling to see what he's at: marriage and kids are normative because they're fulfilling in and add a dimension to life that is irreplaceable; not to mention it's the best way to sustain civilization . Are people unable or unwilling to get married for a variety of reasons? Yes. Should this be the norm? No.
It seems like a millenial thing to make a big deal about having children. People in past generations just had children because it was a biological imperative akin to breathing oxygen.
Maybe because millenials have grown up with social media they see the need to virtue signal about everything. I'm guessing becuase of the parenting style they had where they got a participation trophy for everything they did.
Not sure if my take is correct but it just seems odd to me the way people these days make a virtue of something that every other generation in human history took for granted.
