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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by bostik on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:42AM (#13455881)
You say that like it'd be a bad thing.
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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by rublev on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:37PM (#13456117)
A martyr for a planet, now that's a new one.
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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by jessaustin on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:48PM (#13456174)
If some combination of benign incentives causes the human race to be smaller than 7B 100 years hence, that won't be a bad thing. I doubt anyone here is advocating for anything Swiftian.
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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by wutbrodo on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:46PM (#13456940)
The comment wasn't about the human race shrinking in size, it was about the human race ceasing to exist.
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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by arjie on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:45PM (#13456933)
Amusingly, this is one of those things that's been around for a while: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org
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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by psyc on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:11PM (#13456667)
If humans actually died out, there wouldn't be any humans to lament it. Seems neutral to me.
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Re:San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone? by rublev on Sunday January 22, 2017 @04:23PM (#13457575)
Yet somewhere a faint "You bastids!" will still echo from my grandmother for all of eternity.
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