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If it's so horrible to be a first world middle class person, then a really responsible first world middle class person would commit suicide, or at least move to Africa to scratch out a subsistence living in an overfarmed, poverty-stricken small village.
I am so tired of the ultra-left wing logic that the most horrific thing one could be is a human being, and especially an American human being with a reasonable standard of living. You don't like the suffering of the rest of the world, work to change it. But the only entities with the power to change things in the world are people, so creating people has the potential to do as much to help other people as to harm them.
There is nothing inherently selfish about having children. There is nothing inherently selfish about not having children. There is, however, something enormously selfish about attempting to impose your value system regarding reproduction on other people's decisions, whether you are a sanctimonious busybody trying to insist that everyone has to have kids, an anti-abortion nut demanding control over other people's uteruses, or a misanthrope who believes that creating new human life is evil.
