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Re:Paternity leave at startups: designing a policy for new p... by Sileni on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:30AM (#17909701)
That suggests that "more people" is an unmitigated good, which I don't believe. There has never been a time when you were more able to avoid unplanned childbirth. The number of children in foster care has been increasing since 2013.[0]Whatever good could be done by having a child could be done better by acknowledging some of the people already in this world and giving them a real shot. We're all responsible for any situation that becomes a "tragedy of the commons", and we need to start behaving like it.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/30/567615510...

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Re:Paternity leave at startups: designing a policy for new p... by quotemstr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:38AM (#17909764)
There's nothing wrong with wanting your kids to be your own, nor with the desire to ensure that part of you makes it to the next generation. I'm sick of anti-humanism backlash against doing the thing that every organism ultimately exists to do.
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Re:Paternity leave at startups: designing a policy for new p... by Sileni on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:50PM (#17910490)
Considering humans are the demonstrated reason for climate change, I'd argue some anti-human sentiment is a bit overdue. Nature's going to be fine. Life will recover once we're gone. It's us humans that are going to suffer because of our humanist entitlement.
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Re:Paternity leave at startups: designing a policy for new p... by quotemstr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:42PM (#17911075)
The idea that some environmenal metric is more important than human suffering is bizarre and vaguely masochistic. The environment is an instrumental good for humanity's use, not a legitimate moral object in itself. Human extinction is a maximally bad scenario no matter how well the environment does afterwards
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