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I have decided not to have kids, at least partly because I believe Earth is already overpopulated for the living standard that humans deserve.

Occasionally, someone asks the idiotic question, what if everybody made the same decision? Well, if they truly did, I would have made a different choice.

All these projections about (white) replacement are fundamentally flawed because they assume that the reasons for the decision won't change with the demographics.



You are just a narcissist.


Am I? I think from a selfish perspective, I am making a huge mistake. I have no doubt that having kids is a lot of fun, which I will miss, and also when I get old, I will miss someone keeping an eye on me. (Technically, you don't need your own kids for that but our society is, for better or worse, structured that way.) And I hope next generation will be very slightly better off (less resource contention) because of my choice.

Also, to clarify another thread which is no longer there, I am not anti-natalist, but "anatalist" - I believe in personal choice in this matter. I also don't think anatalism is hereditary, but acquired from intellectual reflection of the world.


Having children is also narcissistic. They are copies of you after all.


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It is sort of funny how any anti-natalist political position will get outbred out of existence haha. Reminds me of the Shakers who kind of died off because their belief system prevented procreation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers


If that were true, birth rates wouldn't be declining in so many places. Any rational assessment would realize the correlation has nothing at all to do with genetics.


I wasn't blaming people's attitudes for the birth rate, just making observation about how any anti-natalist memes are likely fighting an uphill battle to propagate compared to memes that will get passed from parent to child


Similarly, there are religions that don't proselytize - like the fascinating Oahspe religion, which has about a dozen "Faithists" left, who meet on Skype.

Orphan Utopia: John Ballou Newbrough’s desert colony (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27175739 - May 2021 (2 comments)


Indeed. It is clearly natural selection at work.




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