• Delta_V@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    In a world with too many humans already, can you imagine painting a drop in the birth rate as somehow a bad thing?

    lol

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      6 months ago

      I don’t really care about its impact on the economy, but I do feel for those who are attempting to have a child to no avail. I can only imagine how soul crushing that process can be.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t, those people are selfish. Creating an unwilling life destined to be yet another cog in the machine while the world burns just to satisfy one’s own animalistic desire to have some form of genetic spawn. I silently cheer every time “struggling” couples miscarry and are unwittingly forced to do the right thing and not have kids.

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            6 months ago

            MFW my parents didn’t even attempt to invent a time machine to ask if it was cool to conceive me or not

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          6 months ago

          Those people do not share your perspective. I do view it as largely subconsciously selfish, but your take is fucked up.

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            6 months ago

            My take is fucked up only because we continue to ascribe reproduction as some noble, precious thing; rather than a wildly irresponsible and selfish act.

            Imagine a couple is driving a truckload of garbage to dump in the ocean. They have no reason to do this except some primal instinct that tells them to, all so they can point at the pile of floating garbage afterwards and say “look, that is MY garbage”.

            Now imagine on the way to the ocean, the truck loses a tire and they crash off the road next to a garbage dump, and all the garbage in their truck goes flying over the fence and into the dump.

            Then these people want and expect sympathy from others because they lost their garbage. They were really looking forward to standing on the beach and watching their garbage float free into the ocean and cause more of a mess. Oh no, boo hoo, fate accidentally caused them to do the right thing.

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          6 months ago

          Lol. There is nothing in existence which has a choice of its being thrown into existence. Is all existence immoral?

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      6 months ago

      The problem is the average age increases, and you’ll have more of an elderly population, meaning barely any people actually working while a ton of people are on pensions