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Has anyone stepped back and critically considered the axioms a worldview that celebrates depopulation of a people? You would have to believe it's technically no

Has anyone stepped back and critically considered the axioms a worldview that celebrates depopulation of a people? You would have to believe it's technically not genocide if you aren't pulling a physical lever, and because you have been party to "managing" it with incentives, you haven't terminated entire genetic lineages using what is essentially deception - which further implies those lives and lineages have no intrinsic value. One would also have to believe in the primacy of their own genes and themselves as the effect, which if someone said it out loud they would be laughed out of the room for their racism. While I am personally inclined to misanthropy as a kind of social filter, the Malthusian horror of this article celebrating infertility in India strikes me as pretending that an active genocide is somehow more acceptable when you frame it as a kind of cultural euthenasia. Are they saying the quiet part out loud?

gromitss 5y ago
Yes I can. A child unborn is not a child killed so it doesn’t fit your classification of “genocide”. We need about a tenth of the humans we currently have on the planet unless we figure out interplanetary colonization. This is a way that is almost entirely painless and can be achieved with almost no coercion. It’s a panacea we desperately need.
- adolph 5y ago
  > We need about a tenth of the humans we currently have on the planet Which tenth?
  - gromitss 5y ago
    And evenly distributed slice is my answer to your troll post Adolph.
- motohagiography 5y ago
  There are some indiginous populations who would probably like a word about this reasoning. It's like advocates of these policies don't think they're engaged in defacto genocide because of some abstract legalism around their imagined distance from it. I'd say so-called progressives should really examine whether they are the baddies, but it seems to come back to just being nihilists. The only thing you seem to care about is that you think you aren't getting caught.

gromitss 5y ago

Yes I can. A child unborn is not a child killed so it doesn’t fit your classification of “genocide”. We need about a tenth of the humans we currently have on the planet unless we figure out interplanetary colonization. This is a way that is almost entirely painless and can be achieved with almost no coercion. It’s a panacea we desperately need.

adolph 5y ago
> We need about a tenth of the humans we currently have on the planet Which tenth?
- gromitss 5y ago
  And evenly distributed slice is my answer to your troll post Adolph.
motohagiography 5y ago
There are some indiginous populations who would probably like a word about this reasoning. It's like advocates of these policies don't think they're engaged in defacto genocide because of some abstract legalism around their imagined distance from it. I'd say so-called progressives should really examine whether they are the baddies, but it seems to come back to just being nihilists. The only thing you seem to care about is that you think you aren't getting caught.