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I have decided not to have kids, at least partly because I believe Earth is already overpopulated for the living standard that humans deserve.

Occasionally, someone asks the idiotic question, what if everybody made the same decision? Well, if they truly did, I would have made a different choice.

All these projections about (white) replacement are fundamentally flawed because they assume that the reasons for the decision won't change with the demographics.

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You are just a narcissist.

Having children is also narcissistic. They are copies of you after all.

Am I? I think from a selfish perspective, I am making a huge mistake. I have no doubt that having kids is a lot of fun, which I will miss, and also when I get old, I will miss someone keeping an eye on me. (Technically, you don't need your own kids for that but our society is, for better or worse, structured that way.) And I hope next generation will be very slightly better off (less resource contention) because of my choice.

Also, to clarify another thread which is no longer there, I am not anti-natalist, but "anatalist" - I believe in personal choice in this matter. I also don't think anatalism is hereditary, but acquired from intellectual reflection of the world.

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