I think calling someone "evil" whose actions are driven by billions of years of biological evolution and thousands of years of social conditioning, is a bit harsh.
Excuses.
I wonder why not everyone puts themselves in the position to have to use them…could it be..*gasp*..
self-control?
When people are told the facts and have access to all the information, have the mental capacity to utilize it and STILL choose to play God, then biology and social constructs no longer apply as fair reasoning in continuing to go forward with risking harm and suffering to those who cannot consent to such.
There are cases where bringing a child into being is an innocently thoughtless or even forced scenario, but most people in the modern world know better and still decide to gamble away anyhow, because that's what they want, or because that's what someone else wants, but it's never truly about the child yet to be born, it's about people seeing a blank page they can impose their will upon.
People make concessions for such an act by bringing up children who love their parents or those who had life "work out" for them, but these anecdotes do not give grounds for continuing a system of reproduction in which many will inevitably be chained to torture and put to the slaughter.
Am I here to suffer just so that others can be permitted to thrive?
Why?
Agony and misery weigh more than the feather-light bliss of the
lucky ones.
Who cares about what is or isn't
evil on the parent's part, when all that is necessary to reach the same awful end(s) that much of humanity endures is simply
selfishness.
I'd say what we have here is a variation on Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Sure, but if stupidity is held tight and defended even in the face of a good teacher and in the hands of a sound mind, then can we really call it plain old "stupidity" any longer?
But what everyone forgets is you can leave your house when you turn 18, or even younger in some cases. It's kind of a waste of time and you life to hate someone when you can basically go on with your life like they don't even exist. If you hate them, then don't rely on them to bankroll your shelter, food, school, life and be your own person. (This isn't directed at @Small_Dreams)
It's a lot more powerful (and hurtful) to just eliminate someone from your life. Hating someone is giving them some acknowledgement.
In a more perfect world, or under specific circumstances, this advice could be willingly heeded and taken advantage of.
But I think the problem with this is that many people's reasons for suffering and even becoming suicidal in the first place, also commonly lead to dependence and the inability to fend for one's own self.
The subtler issue is that even those who despise their parents (and with good reason) may still be so vulnerable or ill-suited for the world and society that they have to take what they can get, which in this case is what they already have: their parents.
Settling for the best of the worst, or for fractions of humanity in Mom or Dad when it's impossible to get even that much elsewhere.
You can't always leave or bite the hand that feeds you, especially when it's the only hand that
will feed you, albeit infrequent scraps.
Eliminating parents from your life is not always feasible, not to mention that there are plenty of parents who would not be hurt in the slightest by your departure and cold shoulder (so if that's anyone's goal, a sort of revenge, it can easily backfire and just make you realize-more so-how insignificant you are to them).
