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[–] Asclepiaz@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I wish all people would stop having kids. I am all for the voluntary human extinction movement. A very key word is voluntary though, which really just makes it an ideology.

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works -3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Good luck telling people not to have kids. China's tried that already.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You don't have to. Turns out, when you give women the option to not shove a watermelon-sized object through their hoohaws at an age when they're not ready for it, many of them opt not to!

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

And yet, people did not stop having babies, which is what the person that started this thread asked people for.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Curiously, it worked too well. China is now desperately offering incentives to get people to have more children.

(Okay, I'm just being glib. It's not clear whether it was the one-child policy that was responsible for the birth-rate crash.)

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

It's a reasonable explanation. But China is still one of the most populated contries on Earth.