JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE CASE FOR NOT HAVING CHILDREN. WHAT NEXT?

 

I get the bit about the pleasure and happiness of giving birth to ones own babies, of having cute and adorable babies and children. I get the bit about the happiness and joy which children can bring to their parents. 

I also get the bit about having to deal with the stressful challenges involved in caring for children and parenting them. 

But I still question the fact that all of this is doomed to come to a tragic, though 'natural end.' Even though it, the process of our species having children, will continuously be repeated and have the same 'tragic' but 'natural outcome.' While our species continue to exist.

And then, I ask myself, for what purpose? What would us humans, individually and collectively, have lost.  If we were not to exist anymore? What would we lose, if we were to stop existing?

The answer, it seems to me, is absolutely nothing. Our existence is more filled with foreboding and pain, of various kinds, than it is filled with joy and happiness.

We are born screaming, as we enter the world, and probably for good reasons, even if we could not comprehend them at the time. And what about as we are taken out or prepare to be pushed over the abyss? 

Yes, most, if not all of us, depending on how brief or prolonged is our pre-death suffering.  

Are fated to be tortured, to some degree, with, anxieties, fear and trepidation, as we and our loved ones navigate life and move towards ever approaching death. 

As is the sadness and trauma of those we leave behind. Which is wh, I would argue that, there is a strong case for those amongst our species who have decided not to have children. 

Thereby bringing an end of their chain of anticipated and actual grief and suffering to an end, with their demise. 

Even as others relish the joys and perceived fulfilment of having children, as they focus on the dawn, and, probably wisely, suppress the fact that this joy and fulfilment is doomed to end badly.