So does she find every man in history who wanted children to be selfish, then?Ronald Nand said:She also finds it selfish that the woman wants the child but is unwilling to do the birth.
Men have no part in this bussiness, then?Retrograde said:No sir, we don't give a fuck about children, what we care about is female breeding instinct. Not every woman wants babies to be sure, but most do. And they don't want to raise a person, they don't want to create a life, they want to have and birth as many babies as they possibly can because that's what their biology demands of them. We're a breeding mammal, like rats and rabbits, it's a part of what makes us so successful. But we're 7 billion people in and that shits starting to sting.
Besides, humans are social animals, we want to preserve our genes but we also want to preserve our ideas and make sure our offspring will continue that. We aren't biologically programmed to just push them out as much as we can, we have few children compared to most mammals (not even comparing to something like invertebrates, but compare us to rats for example who have litters of 10 on average, while humans usually only give birth to one baby at a time) and compensate by taking care of our offspring for longer and teaching them our culture, language, and having these social groups to support them.