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> They don't want their cheaper phone; they want your phone What they want isn't relevant. Maybe try some parenting.
by Aaargh20318 9y ago
> They don't want their cheaper phone; they want your phone
What they want isn't relevant. Maybe try some parenting.
- veidr 9y agoThanks, but my mom taught me that it's generally better to avoid taking parenting advice from people who say things like, "Humanity is a plague, we breed uncontrolled and our population keeps growing and growing. There is no need for anyone to start a family, there is no shortage of humans."
- stephenr 9y agoFine. How about if I said it. You don't need a phone with a profile for your kid. You need to be a fucking parent.
- balfirevic 9y agoNope, didn't work from you either. Still a shitty comment.
- Ntrails 9y agoHow about "children wanting something doesn't mean it's the right choice as a parent to give it to them, indeed it's often the wrong choice." But I'm old, and still don't accept that the only way to have a child behave is to give them endless snacks and electronic entertainment on demand.
- veidr 9y agoDarn, I really want to reply! But Mom also taught me not to feed Internet trolls. BTW, Mom, thanks for being such a great parent when I was little! :-)
- Aaargh20318 9y agoOk, lets turn this around. Can you imagine any situation, no matter how unlikely, where humanity should stop increasing their numbers or do you think we should keep increasing the population no matter what ? I'm beginning to fear that for the vast majority of humans the urge to procreate is ingrained at such a fundamental level that no amount of rational thought can overcome it. Like the 3 laws of robotics that cannot be overruled, humans seems to have a rule that 'thou shall increase thy numbers'. We could grow until the planet is covered in 100 story skyscrapers where everyone lives like in a Japanese capsule hotel and there would still be people insisting that we grow the population. Frankly, I think we as a species are fucked.
- leadingthenet 9y agoBeautifully put. I think we are headed in the right direction though. The rate of growth plateaus in very developed nations, so we might just survive the current craziness.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoPeople stop breeding when they're prosperous enough to be comfortable and educated enough to defer gratification. The correlation is well-known and widely documented. Native - i.e. non-immigrant - populations in the US and Europe are both shrinking now, sometimes dramatically.
- rb666 9y agoIs he wrong though? Our planet will not be able to sustain the current population's growth rate.
- Aaargh20318 9y agoSo the solution is to keep breeding like rats ? Don't you think it's sad that we as a species seem unable to keep ourselves under control ?
- JoBrad 9y agoThis isn't actually a problem. https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E
- hycaria 9y agoI was like "wow how did that person read this in this comment ? did I miss anything ?". But no, you just went and dig some comments from that user just to try to make a point ? What is this childish and grudgeful behavior, seriously ? I know, you answered since but you're just digging deeper, and still can't answer properly in a productive way why what they want matters more anyways. Way to elevate the debate.