I read it, and it's really nothing special. Everything you said in this essay has already been written, and far better and more convincingly, by a variety of anti-natalist authors, philosophers and propagandists. It's just you rehashing the same arguments various men as early as the 19th century already put forward. So, as an essay, it's not impressive in the slightest, it is not particularly original or thought-provoking. If anything, it's just you trying to find ways to justify your own shitty parenting of your only child whose death you admitted wouldn't upset you much.Winston wrote:Maybe Marcos. But did you read my essay?
Society and the media say many of the same things you have said. A lot of feminists say the same exact things you have said - that children drain you, hold you back, and that in order to be a "strong and independent woman", it's better not to have children or a family. You are using the same exact arguments they use, only you change the genders in your essay - you are a strong, independent man, slave to no one, a threethinker who doesn't listen to what the system dictates him, or what biology tells him... except, you DID listen to that call of nature and society, and you DID in fact father a son who you are now a neglectful and absent father to. Those are the factual consequences of your actions.Winston wrote:This isn't about the morals or ethics of having children. This is about the factual consequences of having children. True many people have children for the wrong reasons, including me perhaps. But if I had known the true consequences outlined above, I may not have had one. So I wrote it to tell people the truth and consequences, which society and the media doesn't do.
"Children are little vampires who drain your life energy, ruin your life, make you a slave to their every need and leave you an empty shell of a man devoid of any passion or energy to live life, and who never ever give you back any return on your gigantic investments made in their upbringing and schooling."Winston wrote:Whatever you think Marcos, you can't deny that the consequences I present are factual and objectively true. But how you interpret them and deal with them is another matter.
Those are not "factual and objective truths", they are very strong statements and claims made by a man who dreads having to send money to his son every month and often is late with his payments because his son is such a huge burden to him... thereby ignoring the "factual and objective truth" that you in fact were the one who convinced Dianne to have Angelo in the first place.
You are, lets not deny this "factual and objective truth", a lousy father Winston. That is why you wrote this essay a few years back, during a time where little Angelo was annoying you a lot with his behavior... behavior you didn't explain came from the fact that he felt abandoned by you, and never had much of a father figure in his life. When you first announced his birth, I read on the old threads you were so ecstatic. You uploaded a photo comparison of yourself as a baby, and compared his looks to yours. But just a few years later, you are complaining about how "annoying and disrespectful" your son is, and how you wish he had been a girl because "girls are cuter and they bond better with a father". Not to mention the fact you consider his mother racially inferior to yourself. Oh, how a smarter man than yourself would dread the day little Angelo starts using google and finds your old threads...
You're the last person on earth capable of writing an objective, unbiased "essay" about the true consequences of having children. Because before you have children you have to first not be a child yourself. A girl on MTV's "sixteen and pregnant" could have written a more insightful and honest piece.
