Do you not want other people to die and be replaced?

SwellJoe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't have kids. I have not caused a need for me to die to make room or to be "replaced" (though "overpopulation" arguments are often eugenicist and/or racist propaganda, and don't engage with actual density/agricultural limits, so I'm hesitant to make any arguments based on whether there is room for people to not die).

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throw310822 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How can you want for other people what you don't want for yourself? Why should other people die, for example of cancer, when having the chance I'll opt for the cure?

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nxc18 an hour ago | parent [-]

I don’t want to live longer than a natural human lifespan. When I was younger and immature I did, but I’ve outgrown that. Death is as natural a part of life as birth.

	▲	SwellJoe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Perhaps I will mature enough to appreciate death if I'm given a few hundred, or a few thousand, years to think on it. For now, I stand firm in my conviction that death is bad in the general case.

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sebzim4500 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Obviously not? What an insane question

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nxc18 an hour ago | parent [-]

You would like Trump and Biden and their generation of leadership to be in power for the next 200 years? You would like for there to never be a disruptive new generation of people bringing fresh ideas and fresh thinking ever again? You wish to be encumbered by 17th century thinking and ideas for the rest of eternity because those people never died and grew set in their ways?

	▲	SwellJoe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Do we really need 8 billion people to die to keep a few dozen out of power? Surely we can come up with some alternatives? Just spit balling, but I've heard of something called "term limits", which, as far as I know, does not require mass death.

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GeoAtreides 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

do these other people have a fertility rate of at least 2.1?