Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015)

Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by ygaf on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:03AM (#14505147)

Can you point to the word "kill" in his post?

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by oblio on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:05AM (#14505161)

Preventing some arbitrary part of the population from having children is basically eradicating that population, long term. I just used "kill", for simplicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by majewsky on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:21AM (#14505269)

I find that equation of terms troubling. If I take that argument to its logical conclusion, we are all killers because we don't get as much children as previous generations. We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:40AM (#14505389)

> We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

This is a completely false definition of "killing"

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by ygaf on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @08:01AM (#14505529)

As is oblio's.

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by ionised on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:58AM (#14507427)

> We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

No we're not.

Killing requires something to exist and be alive first.

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Re:Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015) by oblio on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:32AM (#14505346)

Ummmm.. false equivalence.

You're choosing not to have children. In wolfgke's description, he's choosing for you.

Big difference.

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