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Re:The global fertility rate is falling by aahhahahaaa on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:21PM (#23840877)
Following this logic (and ignoring the increase of suffering as a raw product of addition) it's totally possible there'd be less suffering if we stayed in loosely connected hunter-gatherer societies.
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Re:The global fertility rate is falling by scarmig on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:34PM (#23840997)
Following this logic further, we might be best off if we reduced the population to a single person whose ideal, perfectly happy life is that of a hermit.

Philosophers have given this a lot of thought: the "repugnant conclusion" is what to Google for.

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Re:The global fertility rate is falling by ivalm on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:27PM (#23840941)
Maybe, but we didnt, so here we are and I don’t see any megafauna to hunt near me. In the future we may wish to think more about our changes.
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