3 ms·

Societies that don't have long-term replacement-level fertility are functionally extinct. The civilization you belong to is effectively dying, and you're worri

Societies that don't have long-term replacement-level fertility are functionally extinct. The civilization you belong to is effectively dying, and you're worried about whether you'll personally be comfortable as it all ends. This has implications. Those who don't want it to die are best off severing whatever responsibility and connections they have to people like yourself. From their point of view, all resources are wasted on those who don't want to keep civilization alive. In a triage situation, such people won't get priority when it comes to being "fed, sheltered, and care for". Your first counter-argument will probably be "well they're wrong". Which is irrelevant. They will continue to behave as if they're correct.

vkou 3y ago
> Those who don't want it to die are best off severing whatever responsibility and connections they have to people like yourself. The same could be said about those people. They aren't aiming towards a steady state society, they are aiming towards tumor-like exponential growth, which will in the long-term, lead civilization to collapse. The person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island, and all... Civilization, and the state exists to serve people, not the other way around. There's a name for an ideology that reverses those priorities and obligations - and that name is fascism.