Is having a child selfish? After all, 100% of it is waiting for difficulties and suffering, and then-death. So what's the point (without religion)?
At its core, we push a person unnecessarily into this world, promise and hope for "a bright future that will definitely come." Isn't it stupidity and cruelty to DELIBERATELY condemn a person to suffer?
The hypothesis – “a person has only one short life” – makes this short difficult life comprehensively meaningless and absurd, generates personal psychological and moral big behavioral problems, and aggravates all life's difficulties and sufferings. This is a stupid comprehensive paradoxical dead end.
Rejection of this dead-end outdated hypothesis immediately gives a fully meaningful and healthy worldview and mood, removes all scientific and life dead ends.
And now we replace “we shove a person unnecessarily into this world”, for example, with” we send a child to school” and maybe we get something more understandable?�
Is it hard for everyone there? Yes. Does everyone have to study and pass exams? Yes. The only difference is that those who do not understand the meaning of school suffer much more in nominally equivalent tests.
Or we can replace it with ” we give a friend a copy of a cool computer toy without any need, knowing that he will hang with it for a long time and he will have to suffer to pass it .” Oh, what a terrible thing to do! By the way, if you haven't noticed, in many games the hero starts �in full or partial w…e.
But it doesn't smell like selfishness at all. Look at the average parent – what and how much they have to give up for the sake of the child. This is more likely to be classified as an act of altruism