random one but something I've been thinking recently - why do people who are anti-natalist or otherwise don't want kids make the argument that now is an awful time to be bringing children into the world? To my view, we're at the peak of human development in the western world. Now is safer than ever to give birth with all the pain relief and - at least in our country - free medical interventions. We have a functioning, organised society that for the most part works extremely well, a welfare state. The vast majority of people have access to a variety of nutritious food (with foodbanks providing access to food for those in financial insecurity) and clean drinking water. I understand life feels uncertain and insecure but hasn't it always been like this... but worse? I just feel like I'd rather be bringing children up in the world now rather than in the middle ages where they'd probably have succumbed to an infected finger and I'd have died in childbirth, even with the threat of climate change and global pandemics hanging over us...