7 billion human beings spreading indiscriminately. I think the population of the world doubled in my lifetime (I'm 46). Tell me why I shouldn't cheer for the virus?
At this rate, 14 billion before I am dead from natural causes.
Because birth control is a more ethical and moral solution than just killing.
shareBecause birth control is a more ethical and moral solution than just killing
well thats just nonsense. humans are hardier than you think. To suggest that all survivors would suffer ptsd and shut down and our race would die is just silly.
as for 'losing our humanity', what about all the wars we've fought, what about the endless starvation resulting in the suffering deaths of millions that we create through our inaction, selfishness, indifference and blindness? How is our humanity more intact if we allow our race to slowly kill itself compared to if we do it quickly? Besides, the survivors would be no more (or less) responsible for the act than they currently are for our slow and inevitable destruction.
I mean, Langdon did say his argument was compelling.
shareWell, you're not alone. Like sure, there could be more humane alternatives like China is trying by giving more benefits to single child families, but this is still slow and ineffective. We're screwing up the Earth and all the living things super hard, just to sustain our, at this point, pretty awful species.
If I had the button Zobrist was talking about, I'd press the *beep* out of it, without hesitation. Sue me :D
Quite the contrary, China lifted the single child policy because it's heading to a demographic disaster due aging workforce population.
The most effective "birth control" method is development.
I was rooting for her so badly to succeed.
shareI am sure most of these environmentalists that see human proliferation as a problem to be met with force tend to be the far left progressive types. The world would for sure be a better place if you sacrificed yourself.
shareFor those contemplating and/or openly expressing this idea of 'culling' the population, the following simple self test helps determine if you truly think it is a good idea to curb the population by killing them or not. The test is really quite simple: kill yourself. If you do, then congratulations, you truly believed in your cause, and have done the world a favour. If you find you can't do it, then congratulations, you might still have some humanity left in you: from now on, stop blurting out such horrible ideas before having thoroughly thought it through. Win-win.
shareIf I killed myself, then I wouldn't be able to watch you humans suffer. A new day can only bring more bad news so why do I want to miss that?
You should be happy that some of us who share these same thoughts are doing it on the internet. Would you prefer us to take out our frustration and do real harm offline?
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