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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by yoyohello13 on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:19PM (#42776133)
> ask how our ancestors seemed fine with the above but we seem less so?

Maybe they weren’t fine with it. They just didn’t have any other choice. Now we do, and turns out a lot of people choose not to have kids when given the choice.

Honestly, I think we will have a rough couple generations, then nature will take its course and humans will reach a new equilibrium that factors in birth control.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by dyauspitr on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:24PM (#42776180)
It’s only a choice if you live purely for yourself. It’s the job of the state to make short sighted, self absorbed thinking like this unpalatable since people can only think in self absorbed, short term ways.
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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by yoyohello13 on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:30PM (#42776228)
What a misanthropic world view.

How about we make it easier for people who want kids to have them, and we stop vilifying people who don’t want kids?

There are many ways to contribute to society. Some of the kindest most selfless people I know don’t want kids. It’s fine, humanity will manage.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by teitoklien on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:47PM (#42776389)
If he is misanthropic , then amigo, Nature is the most misanthropic existence in the whole universe, by your logic, lol.
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