Cyanide & Happiness
About
Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
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History
@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
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This here is straight up one of the biggest reasons I do not want a kid. Right now it sure seems like the best thing I could do for my children is not force existence upon them.
I once had a girlfriend tell me she aborted a baby I'd fathered. At the time I was surprised (I learned there was a baby), puzzled, saddened, depressed, and I went to have a drink (ok, several).
But of course she was right.
What kind of lunatic would raise children nowadays?
However The problem is that only lunatics would raise children nowadays. So we'll end up with people raised by lunatics. Our species will drift towards lunacy. (Ok, we're already looneys) Is it realistic to throw kids into the boiling pot to counter the crazy ones? Or should we just let the crazies fight amongst themselves?
I'm for the lmatter (also I won't be there, so it's not like I care, unless I can haunt them, in which case theyre going to fucking suffer), what's your POV?
As much as I'd like humanity to improve, it feels off to task my not-yet-existent child with trying to fix humanity. It still simply doesn't feel right to bring a child into this existence, and it still doesn't feel right to task them with fixing it all.
If I had more hope that very serious improvements are guaranteed, I might be more keen on it. As it currently sits, it's not my unborn child's job to fix what I failed to fix.
I struggle with this line of reasoning as almost every generation before has had similar struggles. World wars, great depressions, authoritarian regimes/dictators, and nuclear wars, just to name a few of the most recent. Add in historical contexts like plagues, invasions, witch hunts, etc. If people had the same thoughts as this then none of us would be here today, I dont fault my parents for the state of the world even if I wish it was better but I'm glad I get to experience the mystery we call consciousness and help better the world for all those in the future that come after me. If those with common sense stop having kids and teaching all we are guaranteed to do is make the world even worse off for those living today and let stupidity continue to rise in those who will be born in the future. The hateful and idiotic people aren't questioning whether they should have kids, so if we can counter that by having and raising well-adjusted kids its imperative we try. Otherwise, humanity will be doomed to be full of hateful bigots that will destroy ourselves.
That is if climate change doesn't turn into a catastrophe
Can it fuck up a bunch of coastal cities and make us rethink where we grow produce sure. Is it going to end the world, no not really, so move to an area that is a climate refuge and teach your kids how to be self sustainable if you are truly worried. People love to act like climate change will end all life on earth, it won't it will fuck up how our societies are currently designed and cause a lot of death but honestly maybe thats the only way we can get out of the capitalist hell scape by having mother nature force everyone to actually work/think differently.
"Adaptation to 4°C may not be possible: A 4°C world is likely to create a set of interacting pressures, making it hard to project what will happen as a result. Models, for example, often don’t take into account what might happen if reduced water availability, new diseases, and heat extremes happen at the same time. In its 2012 report on the impacts of a 4°C temperature rise, the World Bank concluded: “there is no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C world is possible … the projected 4°C warming simply must not be allowed to occur.”" https://unclimatesummit.org/comparing-climate-impacts-at-1-5c-2c-3c-and-4c/
If we find ourselves going back to high emissions we might even hit closer to 5C by 2100
Yes, but when they talk about adaption, they are talking about adapting our current world and society without adverse effects, which, of course, probably won't work. There will have to be dramatic changes in society to work in the post climate change world, powers will shift, people will end up dying, where we grow food will change, etc. The world won't just end but there will have to be change and maybe thats the best opportunity the world will have to get out of the oppressive systems like capitalism. Be mindful of how you view the future, dont go building a life on a costal city or area at risk of flooding or extreme heat waves, without mindful people having children and pushing life forward we are surely going to be doomed. All I'm saying is people are always living in "unprecedented times" its not a reason to not have kids if they are truly something you want, there will always be struggles and things to overcome thats the way of life. Just make sure you can care for your kids in the best way possible for your situation before having them and dont have them for the purpose of living through your kids.
There are unprecedented times and then there knowing there could be mass amounts of famines and when researching how populations over came those, realizing that modern western cultures don't know how to most of the things we did back then, much less make things like bread out of birch wood.
Okay, that's a fair point
That isn't to say you shouldn't have kids, that's on you to assess the risk. This is to say there's some justification for not wanting to take the gamble on this particular risk for a disaster
If I look at world news for the decade I was born (and more importantly, contemporary sources for what was actually happening in that decade), I can tell you two things. 1: That decade was objectively worse than the current one for a large fraction of earth's population, and 2: I don't resent my parents for birthing me into that decade. I'd rather be alive than not, and that's mostly history now anyway.
The best part of my above comment, is you can't tell what decade I was born from the content. They were all f'n bad.