Are you a guy? 34 is still young! Plenty of my friends met their SO, got married and had multiple kids, all in their 40s. So do not give up, it will happen eventually.
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But why? All science points towards an inescapable climate global crisis in just a few decades time, nothing ridiculous about it or are you going to argue against it?
Do the other extreme then. If no one had kids, humans would be extinct
Given the results I'm not too sure if its that negative. Im not saying Im looking forward to the end of our lifes, nor our children. But we mourn something that has clearly been pure poisen to the planet.
good and bad are concepts created by humans. If people didn't exist, who'd consider something good or bad? The only ones who consider something good or bad are humans, which means those concepts would cease existing alongside us.
There are probably millions of grandparents out there with children who never visit.
The animals can feel pain. Elephants are capable of holding grudges for a long time. Concepts of good and bad exist among none humans too. (How else would you condition animals?)
Dogs will die without humans either way. They need their loyal companion. Some might return to the wild but eventually they'd be unrecognizable.
Those people are very few statistically.
Animals feel, but that doesn't mean they have morals. They don't feel remorse for killing others of its kind. They don't punish other elephants for doing something perceived by their society (which is inexistent) as wrong. If another Elephant die, they might mourn it, but say, if another Elephant killed it by stomping it, it won't feel remorse or guilt. Feelings are not the same as morals. Animals don't care about destroying the environment. Invasive species feel no guilt about doing what they do and a cat don't feel anything other than pleasure when killing a mouse or a rabbit, even if not for fun. Pain has nothing to do with any of this either. I'm very much pro protecting the environment, but no animal will think "man, it's good that humanity was wiped out". They don't have this kind of sentience. The destruction of the evironment being something bad (which I obviously 100% agree with) is something humanity reached. Animals don't care about destroying it, otherwise, again, invasive species wouldn't exist and neither would population bottlenecks due to an animal population consuming more resources than the environment is able to produce.
Monkeys have been proven to have morals. Elephants seek revenge (against humans who hurt them for example) and attack a person who hurt them.
Would they think humanity not existing would be a good thing?
Of course not, but less population is way better for the planet to buy time for the sparse hope of a solution.
Yes, because you called it "peak ridicilousness". An objective point can be made that knowingly having kids in this overpopulated age with almost certain disaster looming, is immoral at best.
Outside of realizing I should recycle and try to not leave the planet in worse shape, I don't really care what happens after I'm gone. I don't care about any legacy, family name, genes to pass down, country powers, being remembered, or anything like that.
There is no guarantee your kids will like or even visit you when you are older.
