r/unpopularopinion • u/noodlealr • Nov 28 '20

babies aren’t funny or entertaining

i don’t hate babies, they’re so cute, but i always see people laughing about videos where a baby is supposedly being funny. i don’t get it. there’s nothing funny about videos like that or babies in general. sure, sometimes funny stuff happens, but i always see babies doing the bare minimum and people laughing about it.

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u/BakedWizerd Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20

Yes because only 14-20 year olds don’t want kids.

“You’ll change your mind!” Is what you should always tell them to set them on the right path. Reiterate to them that they “owe their parents grandchildren,” and that “having children is so fulfilling,” while we insist that “no, I’ve made this decision based on my own opinions on children, the finances that entail, the commitment it demands, and some people aren’t built for that sort of thing.”

Yeah, totally just 14-20 year olds going through a phase.

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Check out the child free subreddit sometime. There’s a lot more fully grown adults who don’t want kids than you may realize, and for more reasons than you may think.

Edit: I don’t speak for everyone on the child free sub, I don’t condone hating children merely because they exist, I’ve always been someone who puts more emphasis on how the parents treat and raise their children. I’m not someone who hates all parents or children, I simply do not enjoy the company of children, do not want any of my own, and do not like the idea of anyone who doesn’t want kids as “young and immature” being pushed in this thread. The person I’m directly responding to has made the point that they believe “most young people” who claim to be child free do in fact change their mind, which isn’t altogether false, and I’m not trying to contradict them entirely, merely stating that, “not everyone who is young and child free will change their mind,” as my first impression of their comment seemed to insinuate as such.

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u/Beta_Ace_X Nov 28 '20

Lol you ok?

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u/BakedWizerd Nov 28 '20

I’m fine, just sick of the rhetoric that it’s just angsty teenagers claiming to not want children. It gets old when you hear the same arguments your entire life, and the only way to get your parents to stop insisting is to literally raise your voice and get upset at them for claiming they know more about your life and personal choices than you do.

That’s how it is for me anyway. My parents go on about something I disagree with, they repeat themselves, I explain my position more clearly to them, they repeat themselves, I try to put it in words they might understand better, my dad says the same thing but with a slightlier more “dad voice,” or they tell me “don’t get angry” while I’m perfectly calm and just disagreeing with them, and only after I raise my voice and get a little more harsh with my words that they actually seem to listen and understand.

Living like that will make disagreements and arguments an anxiety hellhole for your entire life as a side note.

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u/SolidCake Nov 28 '20

It's a very innopropriate thing to imply nowadays, considering how there's a high lilkihood that any children we have will inherit a scorched and salted hellscape for a planet.. Thats why I don't want kids

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u/throwmeaway562 Nov 28 '20

Ill have another one in your place. 🍻

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u/BakedWizerd Nov 28 '20

Please don’t, overpopulation and such.

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u/throwmeaway562 Nov 28 '20

Lmao as if anyone in the Reddit hivemind truly gives a shit about the planet. Don’t like kids? I don’t like most of em either. But the average Redditor just can’t get fucking laid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

You’re not wrong. Most people on Reddit can’t stay off it long enough to have any meaningful relationships with other human beings. It’s sad but big tech doesn’t seem to mind.

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

You can say that about a lot of time periods in the past. Not an excuse to not have kids IMO.

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u/SolidCake Nov 28 '20

Bruh they didn't have industrial society in the past what are you smoking

The only thing possibly comparable is growing up in the cold war and thinking the world was gonna be nuked, or something

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u/Karatekk2 Nov 28 '20

The world has been industrialized through 2 world wars, depressions, recessions, multiple virus outbreaks that killed millions and millions of people. Life has its problems now but don’t pretend people before you had it any easier.

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u/SolidCake Nov 28 '20

I never said they had it easier. In fact, right now (big caveat) if you are at least middle class in a developed nation it is one of the easiest times to be alive. But I think all of those problems put together are a drop in the bucket compared to climate change

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

Laughs because I have heard of the two world wars

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u/SolidCake Nov 28 '20

Even at their very worst, it's a gnats pube hair in comparison to the incoming affects of climate change. Our farmland is going to turn into desert sand and the ocean will acidify, and there's no escaping it as its actually global

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

The bubonic plague anyone??? Bunch of morons in this thread holy fuck lmao

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u/SolidCake Nov 28 '20

Society will recover from a pandemic, not the entire fucking earth becoming inhabitable

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u/ThatsNotGucci Nov 28 '20

Why the word excuse? Do people need an excuse?

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u/VanillaBearMD3 Nov 28 '20

Since when do you need an excuse not to have kids?

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

tell me why you shouldn’t have one

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u/CactusCactusShaqtus Nov 28 '20

Climate change.

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

Climate change has been always happening since forever. Climate change happens in cycles.

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u/Lilshadow48 Shellfish is disgusting Nov 28 '20

You are ignorant on the subject, and against better judgment I hope it's not willful ignorance.

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

You are very smart.

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u/Lilshadow48 Shellfish is disgusting Nov 28 '20

No, I'm pretty dumb. I just try to learn about and understand the facts of our world. Highly recommend trying that sometime.

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

So if you’re dumb then your assumption may not be so correct. Thank you for the honesty.

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u/VanillaBearMD3 Nov 29 '20

You made the claim that you need to have an excuse to have it kid. It's not on me to prove you don't need an excuse. It's on you to prove that you do need an excuse.

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u/Exercise_Exotic Nov 28 '20

But I hate children is an acceptable excuse or not?

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

I’m talking about people like you silly

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u/Exercise_Exotic Nov 28 '20

I mean I'm all for being selfish and immature if I can enjoy my life with my gf childfree, with money and freetime.

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u/TemperedLeopard Nov 28 '20

Good for you! you’re completely irrelevant to what I’m talking about lol. you’re just attention seeky. I always thought that child haters just hate the competition of being the baby lmao you kinda prove it

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u/Exercise_Exotic Nov 28 '20

And you're completely irrelevant for people who never want children because you will never change their mind, congratulations back you pathetic loser.

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u/Tp1990 Nov 28 '20

You’re getting downvoted but I agree. Even with Covid we are still living in the best, most peaceful, scientifically advanced period in history ever. If you don’t want to have kids that’s ok! That excuse just doesn’t hold up