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I tell my kids that if they don't give me grandchildren, they'll be breaking a 4 billion year record of 100% reproductive success. Every single one of their anc
by simonh 5y ago
I tell my kids that if they don't give me grandchildren, they'll be breaking a 4 billion year record of 100% reproductive success. Every single one of their ancestors, back to the first DNA molecule succeeded at having offspring. Let's not break that record.
No pressure.
- psychoslave 5y agoHave you tried to forbid them to have kids?
- simonh 5y agoReverse psychology works great when they're toddlers, but they soon catch on to it.
- erhk 5y agoTry telling them that youre indifferent. Maybe a lateral angle will work
- hyperpallium2 5y agoHuh! Well, I'm going to try it anyway!
- bbarnett 5y agoWhich is why reverse-reverse psychology is used.
- koolba 5y agoIt’s even more specific! You can tell a son that all their male ancestors had a son! And you can tell a daughter that all their female ancestors had a daughter! No pressure indeed!
- perpetualpatzer 5y ago> You can tell a son that all their male ancestors had a son This seems off... by counterexample, my grandfather had no sons, but three daughters (one being my mother).
- frankbreetz 5y agoYour mother is not a male ancestor. Parent was just saying there is a line of all males for men and all females for women.
- enkid 5y agoI agree that's what he probably intended, but that's definitely not what he said.
- koolba 5y agoYes that is what I intended. The line up the father side for the boys and the mother side for the girls.
- simiones 5y agoNo, but the maternal grandfather is still a male ancestor. Parent said "all male ancestors had a son", which is not true. The true statement is that, for any generation of ancestors, at least one had a son.
- enkid 5y agoThere is an unbroken line of males having males and females having females, but not every male ancestor had a son and not every female had a daughter. Every ancestor had a father and mother, but it doesn't work in reverse.
- slowhand09 5y agoReference: https://dailyreckoning.com/the-demographic-time-bomb/ https://dailyreckoning.com/the-demographic-time-bomb/
- simonh 5y agoA few decades ago humans were going to smother the planet with people. Now we're dying out. Come on, there are billions of us. Demographic trends will come and go, but for now shedding a few billion people organically over the next century or so would be no bad thing.
- barkingcat 5y agowell, the ancestor lineage also was able to take steps to accomplish that goal. Your kids can tell you that if you don't provide an arranged marriage partner for them, it'd be your fault that they couldn't find a partner and thus reproduce!