I don't think i'd use the word selfish, but I do think it's interesting that many people who aren't wanting kids don't do it for the reasons I'd assume.

If you would have told me people choose not to have kids because they already feel they are contributing to bettering the world through some other mission, it would make sense. If you're a doctor or scientist or even a nurse or something where you feel your career is a calling, I can understand feeling stretched thin enough to not want to have kids.

But that's not what many of my anti-kid friends say. They basically say it would interfere with their netlfix watching, video game playing, luxury travel lifestyle.

It's not that kids would take away from other meaningful ways of connecting to humanity, its' that they'd get in the way of their consumption.