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> many people don't believe there is any intrinsic value in having a child Okay, wow. So they're indifferent to the notion of homo sapiens becoming extinct?
by Supernaut 5y ago
> many people don't believe there is any intrinsic value in having a child
Okay, wow. So they're indifferent to the notion of homo sapiens becoming extinct?
- joeberon 5y ago1. Many people now also don't really place any intrinsic value in human life compared to other animal life or the planet in general. I.e. a lot of people don't believe humans are superior or especially worth being preserved 2. Enough people are still having children that it seems unlikely extinction will occur due to their own decision to not have children
- gorbachev 5y agoThere are 8 billion people on this planet. I think the humankind will do just fine with a few people deciding not to have kids. In fact, it'd probably be for the better, if more people thought the same, given that we have 8 billion people on the planet.
- Supernaut 5y agoI will certainly agree that it is for the better if people who see no intrinsic value in children do not become parents.
- joeberon 5y agoWell I don't really see intrinsic value in anything (I'm a Buddhist), but that isn't what I said, I said intrinsic value _compared to other species_. I meant that many people don't see humans as superior to other animals or to plants.
- giantg2 5y agoThat a huge stretch to come to that conclusion and stereotype people like that. Humans are not at risk of going extinct from a lower reproductive rate.
- rabuse 5y agoIndia, China, and Africa are doing just fine.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI don't manufacture shoes, does this mean my decision endangers the continued existence of footware?
- null_shift 5y agoi’m indifferent to that notion. if people would like to have children that’s fine. if not, that’s also fine. is there any reason why homo sapiens must be preserved, just for the sake of it?