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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by 987yghj on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:58AM (#26618125)
Genocidal ideas are more common than we like to admit.
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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by yellowapple on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:00AM (#26618471)
I mean, there are only two ways this can go:

1. Humanity's population decreases (voluntarily or otherwise)

2. We figure out how to get humans off of this one specific oblate spheroid we call "Earth"

Personally, I'd much rather see Option #2 happen, but given how unwilling we seem to be as a species to pursue that branch, #1 seems to be inevitable.

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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by 987yghj on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:28AM (#26621203)
Let's just be honest about what we are doing.
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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by thisarticle on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:00AM (#26618137)
Genocide is the intentional killing of large numbers of people. Failing to procreate isn’t that.
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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by mantas on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:26AM (#26618273)
Denying procreation is a genocide as well. E.g. sterilisation of a large number of people would be a genocide.
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