You are completely strawmanning my position. You are putting words in my mouth that I’ve never even said.

Funny, since that’s exactly what you’ve been doing to everyone who responded to you, and was the reason I commented in the first place. But no, quoting what you said and responding to it is not misrepresenting what you said, just because you’re now realizing how ridiculous what you said is when there’s just a tiny bit of context around it.

Loving your children forces you to care about the future.

So does loving adults. So does loving your community. So does loving people in general. So does loving non-human animals. None of that requires bringing more people into a hostile world, which is the crux of this entire conversation.

Apparently I never considered that you would willingly misinterpret my statement to mean that I am encouraging people to have unloved children.

I never said you said that. You are just misrepresenting what I did say, which is that whether or not someone has biological children means fuckall as to whether a person “has skin in the game” or has the slightest fucking bearing on how committed a revolutionary a person can be. Which is all shit you did say. Stop trying to get out of what you actually said by lying about people misrepresenting you.

I also never discounted the love of parents who adopt children.

Everyone you’ve been accusing of anti-natalism have only said things that are entirely consistent with the adoption of children being a perfectly viable solution to the moral quandary of having biological children. Notice how the whole conversation is based on “bringing a kid into” this world? The issue here is biological reproduction. Adoption totally alleviates all the concerns of everyone you have been arguing with and calling nihilists, for fucks sake! So who is the one arguing against a spectre?

I also never claimed that religious fundamentalists who have many unloved children are the most virtuous people.

No, you just repeatedly claimed that having children is a virtue, and a revolutionary virtue at that. Just own up to what you said, jesus.

I have never claimed that climate change wasn’t real or serious.

You completely discounted everything someone was saying about the effects of climate change that they are already suffering from, writing all of that off as nihilism because you “believe in a better future.” That is some common and known climate denier tactics for trivializing climate change. You’re not a climate denier? Then stop using their rhetoric to disparage comrades’ concerns (and actual experiences) of climate change.

You are unironically advocating for Bill Gates-style climate anti-natalism.

Liar. I even explicitly talked about not shaming anyone for having kids, especially underprivileged people, and the closest thing to anti-natalism I said was that prospective parents should “give pause and consideration” to what the future their children will live through is likely to look like. Ooooh, that’s such a Bill Gates thing to say!! Fuck you. You whine about people misrepresenting what you’re saying and then you pull that shit? Go back to reddit.

Think about it for a second, just think about it.

God what a fucking smuglord thing to say. I have thought about all of this. A lot more than you apparently have, given all the nonsense about “nihilism” you’ve been accusing some of us of while pretending you’re the REAL revolutionary because you believe in procreation!

Finally, why are you so hostile?

I wasn’t, and even gave you the benefit of the doubt when you were blatantly misrepresenting the person you were replying to. I was much more polite than I should have been, until you started lying about people misrepresenting you and throwing around accusations of nihilism because some of us have the audacity to care about human suffering.

Did the arguments you’ve put in my mouth strike a nerve?

You fucking reddit-tier debate-bro loser. Shut the fuck up. What are you even doing on hexbear?