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Despite the fact that some people rejoice at the prospects of being childless, claiming that this has afforded them freedoms and allowed them to focus on their careers etc., there are also setbacks to being childless. Having offspring can give a person meaning to life, and can be rewarding to raise another human, and children often bring one joy. What compounds the GDE resulting from inceldom, is that unlike GDE from choice, a person on the [[inceldom spectrum]] is childless notwithstanding their own will. Being an incel in general is a source of embarrassment by virtue of belonging to a minority. | Despite the fact that some people rejoice at the prospects of being childless, claiming that this has afforded them freedoms and allowed them to focus on their careers etc., there are also setbacks to being childless. Having offspring can give a person meaning to life, and can be rewarding to raise another human, and children often bring one joy. What compounds the GDE resulting from inceldom, is that unlike GDE from choice, a person on the [[inceldom spectrum]] is childless notwithstanding their own will. Being an incel in general is a source of embarrassment by virtue of belonging to a minority. | ||
A simple Darwinian argument can also be made that people should feel shitty when they cannot gain access to reproductive opportunities. From a Darwinian perspective, this is the worst place to be in, as one cannot propagate | A simple Darwinian argument can also be made that people should feel shitty when they cannot gain access to reproductive opportunities. From a Darwinian perspective, this is the worst place to be in, as one cannot propagate one's genes. For this reason, one would expect negative emotions like depression to have evolved that disincentivize men from accepting their inceldom. The explanation is simple: Individuals with a mutation to embrace their inceldom were outreproduced by those who didn't, in fact they did not reproduce at all. This does not necessarily mean people's mood is expected to be in proportion to their reproductive success (it isn't), but it is in proportion to other heuristic conditions that have evolved to incentivize reproduction (status, orgasms, warm body contact, socializing etc.). In fact, men with more offspring today to not feel better about themselves.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> Therefore, [[GDE]] is probably a bit of a meme. | ||
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