Maher Defends Not Having Kids

Bill Maher is back on the air, in a rant about something some said 4 years ago:

it's cat 1:03 ladies. Vance says the country is being 1:07 run by them. in 2020 he said not having 1:10 kids makes people more sociopathic and 1:13 less mentally stable and the people who 1:15 are most deranged and most psychotic are 1:17 people who don't have kids. ...

it's 2024 and 1:35 you're still saying that people who 1:37 don't marry and raise kids are inferior 1:40 weirdos. thanks philis shafley. let me 1:42 check my beeper to see if 1993 1:46 called. you 1:50 know 1993 that's the year I went on the 1:53 air with my first show Politically 1:56 Incorrect and 2:02 and one of the themes that made that 2:05 show different and you know 2:08 incorrect was that the host was always 2:11 pushing back against the idea that 2:13 choosing to remain childless and single 2:15 your whole life was to say the least odd

So are people without kids less mentally stable? He never answers that.

The causality might go the other way, with crazy people less likely to marry and have kids.

Maher says he pays school taxes, and is offended by any suggestion that he is less virtuous. Now he feels vindicated by the millions of others who have decided to not have kids.

The problem here is that Maher, and many others like him, do not understand correlations. No one is saying that he should have kids.