Selfishness has a definition, and it requires a victim. You take the last slice, someone goes without. A child who's never conceived loses nothing, wants nothing, suffers nothing. Meanwhile the people who do have kids collect the meaning, the tax credits, the built-in visitors at the holidays, and then turn around and call the childfree selfish for... what, exactly? For not volunteering for the burden? Childfree adults still pay the school taxes, still fund the pediatric wards, still subsidize a system they will never personally draw from. If anyone is extracting value from other people's choices here, it's not the people quietly living their lives without kids.
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