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Kolohe
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Dude, most things should be kept private. Diet choices, religion, politics, etc.
I mean before I accidentally had a kid, I felt the same way but acknowledged that it was because I was selfish and lazy....not because I was a genius. When I hear people say something along the lines of "I'm not having kids because I'm smarter", what I actually hear is "I'm not having kids because I'm selfish and lazy and too naive to know what I'm missing".
 
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On an individual level, I don't care if people have kids or don't have kids. It's your choice, you're the one thats going to have to do the thousands of hours of work to raise them. But on the societal level having 70 IQ retards being the ones having the majority of kids is obviously bad and we need to incentivize successful people to have kids. We aren't currently doing that.
 
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Aldarion

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Absolutely. Quite the opposite, as a society we are openly promoting not having children. Its insane and suicidal.

Its like the human fallacy of not appreciating the power of compound interest, but applied to species survival instead of finances.

WGWWFD
 

Burren

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Not having kids isn’t “smart” it’s simply a choice. But, to think the world can just keep breeding non-stop is mental and ultimately going to lead to a lot of problems.
 
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Control

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to think the world can just keep breeding non-stop is mental and ultimately going to lead to a lot of problems.
"The world" isn't homogenous, and the portion of it that actually solves problems is shrinking.
 
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RobXIII

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In all seriousness, I'm kind of worried about you. I get that dark humor is often helpful, and I use it all the time, but I sincerely hope you are talking to someone, whether it be a professional or friends/family.

I'm good now. I have a ton more responsibilities, but also a TON of things to look forward to near and long term. The only way I sleep is with stupid amounts of exercise so I'm in good shape. In other words, rustled for sure but moving forward and happy.
 
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Kolohe
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I'm good now. I have a ton more responsibilities, but also a TON of things to look forward to near and long term. The only way I sleep is with stupid amounts of exercise so I'm in good shape. In other words, rustled for sure but moving forward and happy.
If needed, W wellijustdontknow might be able to help you out with a thing or two. or three. four? Four, probably.
 
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Kithani

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On an individual level, I don't care if people have kids or don't have kids. It's your choice, you're the one thats going to have to do the thousands of hours of work to raise them. But on the societal level having 70 IQ retards being the ones having the majority of kids is obviously bad and we need to incentivize successful people to have kids. We aren't currently doing that.
How would you go about that? Even in countries that offer "paid leave" it never covers the salary of highly successful people. Even in Norway, one of the highest paid maternity leave in the world, they give you a year off and pay the equivalent of 60k. That isn't nothing but will that really move the needle for doctors, lawyers, engineers?
 
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stupidmonkey

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How would you go about that? Even in countries that offer "paid leave" it never covers the salary of highly successful people. Even in Norway, one of the highest paid maternity leave in the world, they give you a year off and pay the equivalent of 60k. That isn't nothing but will that really move the needle for doctors, lawyers, engineers?
Making many more times than that, if my work went here's 60k and a whole year off I'd say yes in a second.
 

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Last night I was playing hockey. Total fluke play in front of my own net, the guy in front of me (we were crowding the crease) fell forward and his legs came up. His skate blade managed to miss my shin guards, go inside my hockey shorts, and make a decent sized cut on my inner this, dangerously close to the twig and berries and a major artery. On top of that I then went down and landed square on my hip. Bruised bone. We had a nurse on the bench and she actually got the bleeding to stop before the ambulance got there, but I did bleed on the ice. Kinda made me feel badass.
But now my hip hurts like a son of a bitch if I move at all, and the cut is in an active enough area that walking hurts like a bitch right now. I know in a couple of weeks I will be fine, but I was supposed to do some traveling this weekend, and no way I can do all that walking.

Edit: I am also rustled that the sport I love so much has the potential to damage someone so much with a simple trip while on the ice.
 
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Kithani

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Making many more times than that, if my work went here's 60k and a whole year off I'd say yes in a second.
Maybe you would but I’m guessing you’re established in your career and much older than 30. A lot of career oriented women in their 20s probably wouldn’t.
 

Aldarion

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Not having kids isn’t “smart” it’s simply a choice. But, to think the world can just keep breeding non-stop is mental and ultimately going to lead to a lot of problems.
This is recycled made up nonsense from the 1970s.

The human population was on track to stabilize around 50% below the planets carrying capacity. Thats when we were ""breeding non-stop"" as you call it.

The new trajectory is population decline.

There was never any risk of ""running out of resources"", but we've chosen a trajectory toward literal species extenction instead.

So people could do stupid meaningless bullshit in their free time instead of raising more humans. And those same people want to defend their choice as if it was choosing chocolate over vanilla.
 
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Guurn

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This is recycled made up nonsense from the 1970s.

The human population was on track to stabilize around 50% below the planets carrying capacity. Thats when we were ""breeding non-stop"" as you call it.

The new trajectory is population decline.

There was never any risk of ""running out of resources"", but we've chosen a trajectory toward literal species extenction instead.

So people could do stupid meaningless bullshit in their free time instead of raising more humans. And those same people want to defend their choice as if it was choosing chocolate over vanilla.
I have a brother who is an extinctionist. This is a step further than what I think you are suggesting. Since he is on the extreme left i often wonder if people like him actually run things and extinction is the goal.
 
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Aldarion

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It is a mainstream position among people in academia that the human population needs to be reduced by 90%.

They don't pretend, they don't hide it, they will openly say this and call you a fascist if you argue.

The useful idiots still imagining a "population bomb" and refraining from having kids.. theyre downstream from the real source of the crazy.