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jfz9580m

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17. Well we'll have to agree to disagree -I don't see it as an either or
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
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And every additional human needs a lot of resources in such a complex society.

I already feel squeezed and I am sick of it.

And selfishly I already am childfree and maxed out with the number of impositions society has imposed on me. I don’t see random humans who want to shop at malls and impose their values on me while undercutting my love of nature etc as a “we”.


I’d like to prioritize my issues and life over an imaginary “we” that is fine with impositions, negligence and maltreatment for stuff I find no value in and never will. People who take credit when anything goes right and want no blame when stuff goes wrong.

So I feel it is selfish to keep treating the childfree like shit as employers and whatever passes for society does across the board. I would like to prioritize my own stuff at least now. I especially have felt that the last 14 years of my life has been about this parasitic leeching away of all my goodwill and I still try but I am really sick of a forced collaboration with people I dislike and distrust thoroughly who always treat my issues or priorities or work or health like trash and force other people’s interests forward at my expense.

I already restrict my consumption. People with more than 2 kids should stop making so many demands of the childfree like me who already give up so much-I am not giving up the last resources I have left. It’s just selfish and I am sick of it. No.

The more I get it the more I view the last 14 years of my life as driven predatory market forces and people who don’t really think sucking away all I have and without the common decency of a minimal explanation that is not a fraudulent. And all with zero support but lots of impositions.

So it is tied to that kind of stuff.

A bit repetitious but these are things that angered me personally and generally.

I am not a martyr -just an ordinary human woman.

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