you'd have to be a psychopath to procreate

[Darkover]

Psychopaths lack a conscience and don't feel empathy for others they don't consider the risk of imposing life on someone else
Life is suffering and should not exist, creating a sentient being as flawed as anything on Earth is a sin. You are dooming an innocent people to the possibility of hunger, sadness, heartbreak, disease, war, etc.
Firstly you can't ask your child if he wants to be born, you can't have your child's consent. So you're selfishly enforcing life on him.

Secondly; can you guarantee you child won't have a miserable life ? Can you guarantee he won't suffer immeasurably for whatever reason life chooses to bestow upon him/her ? Can you guarantee he won't regret being born ? And if that happens can you guarantee a way for him to escape life without suffering (suicide is an escape but it's also one of the saddest, most desperate, frightening things someone could commit) ?

Those are all you're responsibility.
Considering you're here, life probably crushed you, did you ever think maybe your son/daughter will be crushed by life, and that it wasn't worth procreating, that you brought someone to this life and only now realizing that the people you brought to life he\she could be crushed and devastated by how hellish can life can be?

 

[Not A Fan]

I wholeheartedly concur. And no joke, it is actually really refreshing and reassuring to realize I am not the only person guilty of this intensely unpopular opinion. You can really get into some trouble for talking about this stuff in the wrong settings. People will call you pathological. To me it comes across as an astonishing lack of compassion.