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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok but I never said anything about eugenics or a specific peoples. I said "we should have less people." And everyone got upset assuming I want to genocide the undesirables.

I literally just don't think we need 8 billion people. In no way did I suggest that we do it in a specific way or targeting specific people. Just a general 25-40% reduction in population over a few generations.

Literally all that needs to happen is more birth control for everyone. Not forced.

Idk why everyone gets so incensed by this.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The issue is people have gone down this line of thinking dozens of times and it always ends the same way. Your inability to see that is how we get there.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Population is dropping in developed countries. Nothing needs to be done but let nature take its course. That's not anyone deciding anything.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Raise the standard of living for everyone and population will level out” is a perfectly reasonable angle. Just say that, because it’s dangerous to leave open ended.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The OP specifically said "just stop fucking so much"

No one said or even implied eugenics.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

You imagined a scenario that no one stated then throw insults when called out on your nonsense.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I mean I understand that people are racist pieces of shit and will attempt to hijack absolutely anything that exists to pervert it into a mechanism of hate. But like.... We can could at least try to better the world.

I think that not having such a massive population devouring the ecosystem would be beneficial in the long term. That can be affected in a multitude of ways but mostly by getting the people alive right now to manage their consumption. Once the "line go down" from that, the generations long dastardly project of ...checks notes...educating people and providing them with medical care as needed, the population will in all probably go down as a matter of course.