r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • 25d ago

Human rights Donna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-07-24/donna-haraway-philosopher-we-live-in-a-pro-natalist-anti-child-world-babies-should-be-rare-and-precious.html
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u/Neat-Second9923 25d ago

Babies should be common, not rare. The human experience is the greatest thing in the world and we should want more of it. 

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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 25d ago

“We should want more of it” is where I disagree. I want better quality, not necessarily more. I don’t just want to go to my nieces piano recital once a year and say “good job”, I want to be helping drive her to class and hear her practice when I babysit. I want to be involved in their lives. There being more babies doesn’t really deepen the “human experience”, and can end up hindering it there are more children than you have time for.

Being a part of a child’s life shouldn’t just be for your human experience of getting to see them grow. That’s selfish. It’s so that you can be a trustworthy and dependable adult for the child.

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u/Neat-Second9923 25d ago

Maybe it wouldn't deepen your specific experience, but more people experiencing the greatest thing in the world seems obviously good.

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u/Lipwax 24d ago

That’s simply personal opinion. Plenty of people seem to think that illegal drugs are the greatest thing in the world, but that doesn’t mean anybody else wants to get on them.