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[–] IndictEvolution@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Can't we all just agree 8 billion people is silly? Think about how much of it is just completely redundant. The main focus really should be massive population reduction.

Edit: Also, no, I don't mean killing off anyone, just reducing birth rates will do fine. We know even just a simple high school education reduces birth rates.

[–] MisterCreamyShits@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

But then the ever expanding capitalist machine would die off and the oligarchy class simply cannot have that, they need slaves, billions of them.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We have resources for >10 billion to live well and sustainably. We failed to do that.

[–] IndictEvolution@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can probably fit like 10 people in my house if I tried hard enough, so I guess that's what I should do, right? Quantity over quality, right? We just can't have enough suffering.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why I put the "well" in the comment though?

[–] IndictEvolution@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yes I guess I skipped over that, sorry. I would, however, still argue it would not make sense to have that many redundant humans, and that wellness is hard to measure since society does not allow people to express how they truly feel about things.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the core argument to eco-fascism.

[–] IndictEvolution@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reducing birthrates is not genocide. As long as the population continues to increase, human life will be more and more devalued as we continue to choose quantity over quality of life because of a DNA delusion.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It literally is genocide, by definition. I know you think you are correct and moral, just like everyone else that ends up thinking stuff like this, but you're not. You need serious psychiatric help as soon possible.