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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

This would be an excellent rebuttal to the claim that everyone who experiences a specific type of hardship later has a specific outcome.

But for the claim you're responding to, this appears to mostly just be some cringey self-aggrandizement?

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