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Re:The happiest I've ever been by nine_k on Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:56PM (#47203534)
Childlessness is a beautifully self-removing trait.
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Re:The happiest I've ever been by card_zero on Sunday March 01, 2026 @12:15AM (#47203947)
Ideas aren't genetic.
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Re:The happiest I've ever been by bigDinosaur on Sunday March 01, 2026 @12:29AM (#47204001)
It doesn't have to be genetic to be 'self-removing'.

What happened to the Shakers?

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Re:The happiest I've ever been by card_zero on Sunday March 01, 2026 @12:37AM (#47204029)
OK, religious ideas are kind of genetic via indoctrination. (Epigenetic? Heh.)

Meanwhile ideas can be "self-removing" due to being bad, but then you'd just say "that's a bad idea" not "that's self-removing", so genetic descent was implied.

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Re:The happiest I've ever been by bigDinosaur on Sunday March 01, 2026 @04:35AM (#47205155)
I didn't say the Shakers had a bad idea, it just was an idea that led to them removing themselves from further existence that was not genetic. Whether that was a good or bad decision is an entirely separate judgement call.
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