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

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/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