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That is not even remotely the title of the article!
by jakeogh 3y ago
That is not even remotely the title of the article!
- andirk 3y agoThe article is almost the opposite of that title, but let's discuss that title. Having children is absolutely inherently selfish. There is no good reason besides ones own self fulfillment to overpopulate a world that is on the verge of irreversible climate damage where people may very well be fighting over water and air conditioning while fleeing some of the most densely populated regions due to uninhabitable heat in less than 100 years. Luckily there is a solution though: just have generational wealth.
- thriftwy 3y agoBut these (the fleeing and fighting ones) are not my people. My people are living sparsely (but overurbanized) and have not enough children. Totally not obliged to welcome them in, though with modern political world structure will have no choice. We basically invite the invasion of sea people, II.
- dang 3y agoIt's a representative subhead. Those are a legit alt when the article's main title is baity. (Lots of past examples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20title%20subtitle&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) People often think that HN insists on using the original title but that's only half of the rule: ""Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - note that word 'unless'. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html