How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.
And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.
Alright, I should have prefaced this with “I assume society is working, there is no racism, corruption, non-cis non-hetero people have sufficient rights, and the government is working as intended.”
The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.
There are some people who just definitely don’t have the wherewithal to be parents. They can barely look after themselves, often they don’t look after themselves.
Part of the test would be to ask if you plan to name your kid after a Game Of Thrones character.
The problem is not reducing population, it’s to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?
Now do kids.
There should be, but I expect the unintended consequence is a severe drop in birth rate.
How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.
And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.
And this is why we can’t have nice
thingsdemocracy.Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
https://time.com/4192760/hitler-munich-excerpt/
It was almost 100 years ago, but yeah, everything leads to Hitler eventually.
No… no. Not everything, but rhetoric like in your comment.
You’re literally cheering on eugenics, with a false hope of what it would achieve.
Alright, I should have prefaced this with “I assume society is working, there is no racism, corruption, non-cis non-hetero people have sufficient rights, and the government is working as intended.”
Of course, unfeasible right now.
It TOTALLY won’t be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.
The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.
I think that’s the point.
There are some people who just definitely don’t have the wherewithal to be parents. They can barely look after themselves, often they don’t look after themselves.
Part of the test would be to ask if you plan to name your kid after a Game Of Thrones character.
unintended consequencedesirable effectNot always. See Japan and Korea, for instance.
Let’s hope they figure out how to reduce population gracefully. It’s important to save the planet.
We could also just move to space, we have the tech to start this process
The problem is not reducing population, it’s to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?
We do by working towards post scarcity and transitioning away from capitalism
And if they try to stop it we force the transitioning
There is no need, birthrates are already falling.
But the ones breeding shouldn’t be…
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i think murder is already illegal
Now do whatnow!? Are we still doing phrasing? That still a thing?