<p><pre><code> "As she says this, her five-month-old daughter Titan Invictus – the couple
refuse to give girls feminine names, citing research suggesting they will be
taken less seriously"
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I'm glad that they're giving their kids serious names, rather than something ridiculous like Susan or Jane.
Africa continues to produce plenty of people. While the article seems to dismiss racism out of hand, it is the only intellectually consistent explanation for these “pronatalist” beliefs. Likewise, there are millions of people in Southeast Asia who would love to live and work in Japan. Japan’s shrinking population could be reversed almost instantly if it changed its immigration policies.
Suppose humans go extinct. Why is it such a bad thing? Species go extinct all the time. Why are we so special?<p>We have zero respect for the planet or other species (if we did, we wouldn’t raise animals in horrific conditions just for their flesh). Maybe other species will thrive, when we are gone
Mankind does not seem to be at risk from falling birth rates. If you can think of a plausible such scenario I'd like to hear it. Sure, certain cultures are at risk. But anti-natalists tend to edit themselves out of cultures, leaving the more fecund natalists to spawn the future. Raising families, breeders are disproportionate sources of both future memes and genes relative to non-breeders. The more effective anti-natalists are, the greater the rebound from their resulting self-elimination.
You have a world where women are expected to sacrifice early marriage and child-rearing for their careers and the cost of living is so high that even people in the higher earning brackets are reluctant to have children early,
then population becomes a problem.<p>Dear pretentious narcissistic elites, if you feel the world population is collapsing pay your staff better wages and increase the stock of available housing, something which the so called developed world is extremely loth to do.
If we're so interested in eugenics why are we breeding from people whose eyes don't work? /s<p>Also those baby names when they really do look like people who will complain about non-traditional-eurocentric names.<p>Honestly reading this was giving me "great replacement" vibes :-/