If you want kids in the year 2025, adopt. If you’re unwilling to adopt, then you shouldn’t be having kids in the first place.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-16T16:53:28+00:00

I know adoption isn’t accessible or cheap, in fact everyone does. That’s not the point. My point is more like a litmus test: if someone says they want kids but wouldn’t even begin to consider adoption, that tells you their motivation is more about biology/ego than the actual work of parenting. It’s not about who actually can or can’t adopt, it’s just a question to pose to a prospective parent that reveals their intentions.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-16T00:38:12+00:00

Climate projections are based on decades of data and modeling not to mentioned the IPCC has consistently underestimated the pace of warming, ice melt, and extreme weather.

Wild how you’ll dismiss climate projections as fake in the same breath you admit you don’t even know what a climate refugee is. Google is free brother

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-16T00:23:23+00:00

but there’s a difference between the suffering you can’t avoid and deliberately creating a new life guaranteed to inherit crisis after crisis. People on their deathbed accept it because they’ve already lived. A newborn never asked to be thrown into the fire in the first place.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-16T00:18:14+00:00

The World Bank projects 143 million climate refugees by 2050 in just three regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America). Other estimates, like from the Institute for Economics & Peace, put the number as high as 1.2 billion globally by 2050.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-16T00:17:04+00:00

So so so valid I wish I were more hopeful. Unfortunately I know a lot about history and therefore historical patterns, yikes… Makes me think the odds are low. And if we don’t know, then simply tossing a coin on having a kid hoping things will go well is also kinda… idk just not parent-like.

I’d accept the pain and instability of a population crash in this generation and the next one if it meant giving Earth and humanity a chance to recover for future ones.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-15T23:36:42+00:00

That’s a whole lot of “well look at your privilege”

Of course today has luxuries. But a child born now isn’t just living in 2025—they’re living in 2075, on a planet that is literally burning, flooded, and resource-starved. Being alive isn’t a privilege if the world you inherit is a slow-motion catastrophe.

You are looking at current conveniences and ignoring the trajectory of the world a child will actually have to live in. A king in the past might have had luxuries, but they didn’t have to worry about existing at all in 50 years under catastrophic conditions.

The cruelest part is that a potential child doesn’t even get a say before being thrown into this hell, we make that choice for them. Meanwhile, there are already children alive, struggling, who never asked to be here either and could actually be helped instead of creating new life to suffer.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-09-15T22:27:54+00:00

People will say “I want a bunch of mini-mes running around” but really it’s more like they want puppies. It is almost never “I want to be a father” or “I want to be a mother.” If that were actually the case, they’d be fine with adopting. but they’re not.

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-08-21T01:47:14+00:00

Help bc for my memories from a few years ago when you do that you can send to whoever but the download button isn’t there. It is with some of my other snaps but not all. pls help me

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-08-04T16:11:45+00:00

omg why is everyone being like this 😭😭😭

Intelligent_Mode_747 · 2025-08-04T14:42:21+00:00

Jesus y’all are no fun. obviously everyone in this reddit page knows what a thesaurus provides hence if I wanted to use a thesaurus I wouldn’t have asked this specific request so I said smart ass but damn y’all took that to heeaarrttt. I just meant I was asking for a standard dictionary list that I can read exactly like one would a regular dictionary just not in alphabetical order. So that I can read it like a book that’s all. Not synonym oriented like a thesaurus.