To not understand why our species still exists

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It is though isn't it.
We get on with.it because we are here and we didn't get any choice in it.
One day when we are gone we won't even know we lived and who we were,
What's it all about,

Most people really do not think that deeply about it. Not even about what kind of life their future children will have or if they want to be here. For many years religion has encouraged people to be fruitful too and women have not had much choice or control over their own fertility.

As soon as women have more choice in a society birth rates go down. I honestly think when women get independence they think more about whether it is a good thing to have offspring.

Everyone is different is the answer, it's fine to not want children and to find it baffling that people would choose to - it's a bit weird to not recognise that others have different views and opinions though!

stop doing drugs OP.

That’s such a bizarre leap to make. They’re not advocating anything, merely saying they find a particular POV weird. Besides, the opposite of procreating isn’t suicide. It’s not procreating. You’re reading your own preoccupations into this.

On a grand scale the planet is screwed. But most people don’t live like that they live in their little family/community so life experience is completely individual.

Eh? How did you get there?

Where on earth did you draw that conclusion from

i do think we are getting stupider so obvs that will sort some people out (you man walking in road looking at phone)

Up until now humans were innovators, now we are apathetic as the declining birth rate in most developed nations demonstrates. We have stopped evolving and are on our way out unless something happens to challenge us - we’ve still got a few million years as long as the planet holds out so it’s not really a problem for now

To paraphrase The Matrix

We're a virus. We will consume every available resource until we exhaust them all and die.

There will always be someone 'less well off' who will justify wiping out a species because they're hungry, or need the money, so extinction is inevitable, for them, and finally us when we run out of food.

I’m amazed so many people have been brainwashed to think like this

Someone has done a right job on you @Fragmentedbrain to get you to believe you and your life are completely worthless

Because despite there being a LOT wrong with the world, there are also lots of positive and wonderful things going on. ‘Twas ever thus - there’s always been problems.

The reason the human race survives is that it also produces absolutely remarkable people who do amazing things to help it survive.

As for having kids, it’s not for everyone and both choices are perfectly valid. For me, it’s the single best decision I’ve ever taken, despite not being sure I would bother. It’s not easy, but gives me more satisfaction, joy and meaning than anything else I’ve ever done.

How do you interpret it then? How else can you take "I found it odder that people who are alive question it"? Who else would question it other than people who are alive? So there is only one meaning you can take from that to me. Please enlighten me on what they actually mean though. I've had this type of philosophical conversation before and it inevitably ends up with "why do you stay alive then" only in much more blunt terms, so forgive me for jumping to conclusions. Maybe people should explain what they mean better instead of making ambiguous comments that make little sense and can be interpreted in a bad way.

Wow are you actually gerring suicide from that comment

Maybe be concerned about your own thoughts before others

Additionally, some have always hated the idea of reproducing - there have always been women and men that didn't want to have children.

It's fine if people don't want to have kids, others will keep doing so, it's just not that deep, the OP is just being a twit. They should probably get themselves an enriching hobby or get out in the fresh air more, stop worrying about pointless things they cannot change.

It is. But we don’t have the balance that animals do to live and die….adults are supporting children and older people now because they live way longer. You need to work so hard to have money for the life but then sacrifice the time with them. It’s biology to want to reproduce but it’s not easy

The purpose of life for all species is to be, and to recreate.

I certainly hope not but it does read a bit like "why are you still alive then?" maybe that PP will be back to clarify...

So you can't understand a basic human drive? Google it

Yes, it probably is, but I do not think they were advocating suicide.

Well non-existent people can't question anything since they don't exist so it's a bit of a pointless statement if so.

It's a good thing if miserable people without hope don't procreate, and certainly we are in no danger of dying out with billions of us procreating continually all over the planet, so for those who don't want kids, good for them. And for those who do, good for you.

I read it as they were saying that since you are alive, it is weird that you question why other people keep having babies, as it's the sole reason you exist.