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Some see it as a cultural arms race. A "the other cultures aren't stopping having children, so we need to out-populate them!" sort of deal. What the fuck is wi

Some see it as a cultural arms race. A "the other cultures aren't stopping having children, so we need to out-populate them!" sort of deal. What the fuck is with the idiotic voting going on here lately? Every single comment I make, many simply pointing out facts or objectively mentioning something uncontroversial, is getting downvoted lately. What I said in this comment is absolutely the mindset of a lot of people. I am not one of those people.

monocasa 8y ago
For an example of this see the quiverfull movement in the US. Those "N Kids and Counting" shows were about members of the quiverfull movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
- reaperducer 8y ago
  The linked article shows the number of "quiverfull" people is less than a rounding error: 0.0025%. So, not so much a "movement" as a reality TV show.
  - monocasa 8y ago
    They're the explicit part of a larger idea. I grew up Baptist, and remember the preacher explicitly making the same argument. There just were not a lot of people who defined their identity around it; they still internalized the idea though.
  - toasterlovin 8y ago
    The nature of exponential growth is that it doesn’t really matter that much how small the starting number is. You quickly end up with a big number no mattwr what.
iforgotpassword 8y ago
> What the fuck is with the idiotic voting going on here lately? Maybe because it was a short low effort statement on a rather complex topic? I mean I'm not innocent of doing this but I never complained about down votes... On topic, in the case of China I highly doubt being the country with the highest population puts too Much pressure on you, especially if your "arch enemy" america is at a quarter of what you have. It has more to do that they realize supporting the older generation isn't possible with the system they are currently running (it's based on the German system and they see what kind of problems we have over here even without a one child policy). But apart from that in general an aging population hurts society on a purely psychological level. So it doesn't seem that unreasonable to stop a very restrictive policy that arbitrarily crippled population growth and then in turn try to reverse the changes in society and mind set it created (little emperor syndrome to name the most popular instance).

monocasa 8y ago

For an example of this see the quiverfull movement in the US. Those "N Kids and Counting" shows were about members of the quiverfull movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

reaperducer 8y ago
The linked article shows the number of "quiverfull" people is less than a rounding error: 0.0025%. So, not so much a "movement" as a reality TV show.
- monocasa 8y ago
  They're the explicit part of a larger idea. I grew up Baptist, and remember the preacher explicitly making the same argument. There just were not a lot of people who defined their identity around it; they still internalized the idea though.
- toasterlovin 8y ago
  The nature of exponential growth is that it doesn’t really matter that much how small the starting number is. You quickly end up with a big number no mattwr what.

iforgotpassword 8y ago

> What the fuck is with the idiotic voting going on here lately? Maybe because it was a short low effort statement on a rather complex topic? I mean I'm not innocent of doing this but I never complained about down votes... On topic, in the case of China I highly doubt being the country with the highest population puts too Much pressure on you, especially if your "arch enemy" america is at a quarter of what you have. It has more to do that they realize supporting the older generation isn't possible with the system they are currently running (it's based on the German system and they see what kind of problems we have over here even without a one child policy). But apart from that in general an aging population hurts society on a purely psychological level. So it doesn't seem that unreasonable to stop a very restrictive policy that arbitrarily crippled population growth and then in turn try to reverse the changes in society and mind set it created (little emperor syndrome to name the most popular instance).