why anyone would try to have a family in the circumstances of Palestine.
To resist genocide
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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s not too surprising. But I do have to seriously question why anyone would try to have a family in the circumstances of Palestine. I struggle to justify it, living in a first world democratic country because of climate change and overpopulation concerns I have. I can’t imagine considering it in a country that’s permanently under oppression by their ethnic supremacist neighbours.
mrdown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That’s not what I said.
mrdown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s your point? It is also pretty clear why Gazans and Palestinian in general create families. It is a biological need to have a family. Israel is never intending to end occupation and want less Palestinians and not more so it is also resistance to occupation and genocide
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I don’t agree that there’s a biological need to procreate. There is a biological drive to procreate. But there’s no need.
It is resistance to occupation, and ultimately resistance to the ongoing genocide. But personally, I’d feel so much guilt to bring a child into that situation. Is it worth allowing a child to suffer so much to stick it to Israel? I can’t imagine what couples go through making the decision to try to have kids.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They’re fighting for the very survival and preservation of their culture.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It could also be that most of those children were born before 2022
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Bruh, you’re saying the equivalent of: “Why does the Chinese/Koreans even bother to have children when they are under imperial japanese occupation.”
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antinatalists… smh…
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When you’re an autistic and your hear an autistic and you think that’s some grade a autism right there
Although could just be German
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
you’re assuming that if a woman didn’t want to get pregnant, that she’d have access to birth control or abortions in the first place. there’s this thing called the Israeli blockade
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That’s not an assumption I made. I acknowledge there is a blockade. In fact, that’s kinda the point.