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Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe by po on Saturday October 02, 2010 @10:52PM (#1751957)
This assumes that a person cannot be born in a religious culture and convert to a more secular culture or vice versa.

[edit] Could the people down-voting please explain why this is not a valid point?

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Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe by philwelch on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:13AM (#1752144)
I argued it was a race--could our culture infect theirs before theirs outpopulated ours?

That sentence kind of implies what you said. I didn't downvote you (I can't because of how HN works) but I'd assume that's the reason why.

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Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe by po on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:25AM (#1752163)
I see... I didn't interpret "could our culture infect theirs" as converting people over. I don't see it as something infective. There will naturally be a good deal of attrition. Makes sense, thanks.
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Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe by ars on Sunday October 03, 2010 @10:01PM (#1754286)
Because globally it's a very very small number of people who do this, so for this article it barely matters.
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