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Did you forget the /s ?
Generally there are two attitides: should other people have kids? And should I have kids?
If someone is deciding if other people should have kids... that becomes genocide, euthanasia, and similar pretty quickly. If someone is deciding if they want kids e.g. continue a positive culture, give back to all who gave to you, sacrifice happiness for meaningfulness; then that is a personal question.
If there is any hint of racism, then i think we should not be deciding if someone else can have kids.
At some point I think it becomes a matter of self preservation, our planet can't handle us at scale, and we should be looking into ways to control the global population. It would clearly have to be equal for all, but the possibility for abuse is not a good enough argument against it in my mind. If other people's choices endanger mine and other people's lives, then consent is no longer a requirement.
I know it sounds harsh, but the situation is honestly extremely dire. Do I think it will realistically happen? No. Do I think we are realistically looking at a global collapse of our biotope? Yes.
Totally dire, but one billionaire 'life' emits as much as like a million human lives. Talking about population level controls before hunting down every last one and gassing its bunker with chlorine and aerosolized datura is just an excuse to be racist.
To say nothing of modal shifts capitalism etc
Edit: I do think we need fewer people, but that can be accomplished passively and gently by increasing education and bodily autonomy. Panic about that, especially in the English language without mention of other shit is just the biggest red flag.
Absolutely. In fact, I'd argue that capitalism is the biggest contributing cause of uncontrolled population growth as the system is predicated on perpetual growth- that's why everyone is freaking out about diminishing nativity statistics, we don't need more people, it's the machine that demands quarterly flesh to keep it from imploding.
What the fuck even is that sentence. Regardless, more than one thing can be a problem at the same time, and more than one solution available.
'Overpopulation' when coercive power exists is just using climate crisis as an excuse for genocide, and genocide as an excuse to fix nothing.
It's not a problem that can be addressed, genuinely, or is safe to consider, until we're starting to get diminishing returns on everything else.
You're presuming that any measure to control population growth by necessity ends with genocide, which is an untenable proposition. This whole thread spawned from a discussion about China's one-child policy, which is a direct counterexample to that claim, as it did not lead to genocide.
Read what I said. Clauses and all.
As-is I don't know who you're responding to.