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In reply to the discussion: Are Babies for Idiots? Maternal Urge Decreases in Women with Higher IQ [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)I harbor a lot of off-beat ideas - human behavior is largely shaped by the Second Law of Thermodynamics; free will is an illusion; global techno-industrial civilization has become humanity's cybernetic exoskeleton; humans have already become endosymbiotic with our technology, like the mitochondria in our own cells; we should stop trying to fix problems because over the long run it doesn't work; the only thing that's really going to help climate change is a global economic collapse; the maximum sustainable human population is 0; all human energy use damages the planet, regardless of its source; the way things are today isn't anybody's fault; believing that activism can change the global trajectory is a scale error (i.e. collective human behavior is qualitatively different from a collection of individual behaviors) etc.
I don't know if it's even possible to have a useful conversation about population control. I know I don't see eye to eye with either the breeders or the activists on the question, so it's a bit problematic for me (as you've seen...) I'll think about it, though.