That's fair. Take my comment more as a clarification of what you were saying.

Being single and childless or being in a relationship and childless, isn't in and of itself a problem with someone being selfish.

Personally, I choose not to have children because gestures at everything.... I don't even want to be here, why would I forcibly make someone else live with gestures at everything again all this.... The world is crazy. I don't want to subject my offspring to what's happening. I'd rather that they don't exist than to do that to someone who I love more than anything.

They don't and will never exist, and I love them enough to not subject them to the insanity that is our society.

Unless we get to star trek levels of prosperity before I'm beyond the age where I am able to create offspring, then I don't see me having any. I'm not even talking about space ships, and FTL/warp speed, I'm taking about the principles under which they lived in the federation. Unified, peaceful, and free.

Realistically, that won't happen in my lifetime, so I guess I'll never procreate.

And a note before I go. While I don't want to be here, I'm trying to be a net positive for the world while I'm here. I'm not depressed nor suicidal, I have no inclinations to harm myself or others. I'm here, I've dealt with that fact, I'm making the best of it. I just got engaged, and I'm looking forward to growing old with my partner, and peacing out after another 30-40 (maybe more?) years on this planet, hopefully making everything I touch just a little better as I go for those that will survive after me. My entire life is in the service of others....... and I'm not religious. Go figure.