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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by bigyikes on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:45AM (#37723374)
No, they would not have asked that question, because literally 100% of their ancestors for millions of generations had children (or otherwise reproduced). That’s the default option.
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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by camillomiller on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:00AM (#37723431)
Which reinforces my point. Reddit, an irrelevant blip in history is a stronger conditioning than millennia of “default option”?
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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by chr1 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:40PM (#37733014)
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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by wiseowise on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:02AM (#37723794)
For millions of generations there were millions of generations that came to another conclusion and didn’t procreate. And also your assumption that all those millions of generations that you’ve mentioned procreated willingly is false.
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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by RestlessMind on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:10PM (#37727347)
> ...that came to another conclusion and didn’t procreate

and then they didn't survive for the next generation. If that is okay with a society, nature will simply replace that society with another one.

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by wiseowise on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:23PM (#37728837)
Not necessarily. Civilization is built on knowledge of people who procreated and who didn't.
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