Intelligent, mature adults have done quite a lot of bad stuff, too. I would hate it if my child turned out to be a reincarnation of Adenoid Hynkel (great movie, definitely recommend, Charlie Chaplin was amazing) 😀

Well, having children does change a person. For example, a man's testosterone levels drop substantially when he spends time around small children.

This was a nice post to read 😊 I was never that interested in having children myself. People pushing others to adopt kids makes me somewhat think that they just want someone to suffer with them 🤣

Hello 🙂 I'm not sure if this is a fact but it seems that this childfree sublemmy is a bit more active now than it was when I started posting less than two weeks ago.

A rather short read, but a very relatable classic to my mind: The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Think of the wolf in that fairy tale as a childfree person trying to help the children to flee from their malicious breeder mother. Perhaps not too surprisingly, the wolf was blamed for everything and the breeder with her brainwashed children even pulled the plug on the wolf and celebrated its demise probably thinking that getting rid of that selfish hateful bigot of a childfree wolf was a virtue and that it was time to go and be fruitful and continue to never think the thought that rarely crosses anybody's mind: "Maybe I am the bad guy?"

I'll tell some background on why I asked the original question.

I am using a setup where I have adjusted the amount of blue light emitted by my display to as low levels as I could from the interface accessible through the physical buttons in my display. My display is also set to be so dim that when some other people took a look at my display, they had a hard time seeing almost anything even at a good viewing angle.

I also have the night light feature set to as warm as possible on my Ubuntu Linux.

I can also easily control all other possible light sources in the place I am in, including blocking virtually any and all sunlight.

I do know that ambient lighting can be beneficial to the eyes, however. I solely came up with the original question out of curiosity and actual real life setting in mind.

The display I use does look like it is from the control panel of a submarine but that is not a problem to me as a programmer that uses no syntax highlighting as I see no need (or any positive effect from highlighting in my case: I wouldn't read a novel with different words in different colors; I find such features in editors distracting (and Vim or a similar editor without plugins tends to be pure bliss compared to IDEs)) to highlight syntax while programming; all the semantic information I need is in the source code text (i.e., without color data) itself (excluding e.g. colorForth when rendered the way that language is (AFAIK) typically rendered on the screen).

I see your logic. Thanks 👍

Would you mind elaborating on your reasoning that lead you to the conclusion that my original question is circular? I am in no way claiming it isn't, I'd just like to see the reasoning.

This is some good stuff. The punchline gave me an evil laugh 😆 The childfree sublemmy never disappoints you.

I agree. It's like so many modern parents almost thought that their kids won't survive a moment without the parents being at close range to the kids. I have viewed quite a many different very old photos and paintings featuring a multitude of gentlemen and/or ladies at different festivities. The majority of those kinds of pictures that I have seen featured no children whatsoever. People at that time used to have more kids than modern parents on average, so I think the IMHO overly child-centered lifestyle of many modern parents is pretty silly. IMO parents should care for their kids but not worship them. The dinner party people's kids in the "good old days" survived with someone else looking after them; the world would be pretty much void of humans if they didn't survive, anyway.