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How are European and Japanese societies regressive? And especially how are religious societies progressive? I think you got it exactly the wrong way around.
by jeena 8y ago
How are European and Japanese societies regressive? And especially how are religious societies progressive? I think you got it exactly the wrong way around.
- polskibus 8y agoIn the sense of prolonging the species. If the social and economic norms discourage having children then it is regressive in terms of prolonging your (in this sense subscribing to European / Japanese norms) species.
- jeena 8y agoThat would only be true if having more individuals of a species with every generation would be a positive thing for that species. If we look at any other species, this seems not to be the case. There are limits to resources and often it makes sense much more sense to have less individuals so you don't overpopulate and destroy the resources which you need for that species to survive (over-fishing, predator-prey dynamics, etc.).
- deogeo 8y agoWouldn't such an approach require limiting immigration? A country won't consume fewer resources if it offsets its native low/negative population growth with immigration.
- tathougies 8y agoSure, but humans are not a school of fish. If one set of humans decides to die out. Another will step in.
- jeena 8y agoHumans are a species, I thought we were talking about all homo sapiens, not a specific group which right now just happens to live in a specific place.
- tathougies 8y agoMost groups typically prefer their own members over others. Not out of malice, just out of reality.
- coldtea 8y agoRegressive regarding evolutionary traits -- not regarding whatever the current trends and fads deem as "progressive" (which could even be asexuality).
- tathougies 8y agoWell when a society is 'progressing' to utter extinction, it seems sensible to label the 'progress' as 'regress'.