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Humans dying out is going to be a result of something other than our barring one another somehow from reproducing en masse, methinks.
It'll be from reproducing in mass without educating the byproduct of the dangers of waste, disrespect for the only home we have and lack of knowledge as to why we are the only species that actively destroys its own environment. Or nuclear war, again at the hands of those who choose to read less and assert their stupidity more.
It'll be from reproducing in mass without educating the byproduct of the dangers of waste, disrespect for the only home we have and lack of knowledge as to why we are the only species that actively destroys its own environment.
This is why I just shook my head when I read the crap about human beings as the stewards of all life on earth. Someone has to be really sheltered to believe such a thing. Out in the real world I see the majority of humans either abuse of take advantage of animals. I also see plant life being destroyed for the propagation of shallow and materialistic living choices. I won't even delve into the issue that cities are unnatural and that human beings are the only species on earth that can't seem to live within the natural environment without destroying most of it.
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This is why I just shook my head when I read the crap about human beings as the stewards of all life on earth. Someone has to be really sheltered to believe such a thing.
I didn't say we are doing a good job of it. But it is a fact of our existence that we find ourselves as the stewards of life on Earth. Thus we are morally obligated to remain in existence. Thus people, as a species, need to keep having kids.
Some of us would not be well suited. Myself, I just never found myself in the right circumstances to have children, and I'm a little old for it at this point (37). But if someone had loved me back, and I felt like I had the financial ability to raise children, I would have.
Regardless of whether you personally feel that having children would be a good choice in your case, suggesting that no one should ever have kids, so the human race becomes extinct, is offensive to me.
...suggesting that no one should ever have kids, so the human race becomes extinct, is offensive to me.
Stop putting words in other people's mouths. I never said the above. I said human beings are not good stewards of the earth and cited examples. I have not come across one person in this thread that has advocated for human extinction yet you keep bringing it up.
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I have not come across one person in this thread that has advocated for human extinction yet you keep bringing it up.
In the past we had a lot of threads on this web site talking about how people should stop having kids. People were getting banned, creating new accounts and coming back and posting the same stuff. Especially in the philosophy forum, but in the relationships one too. For example:
It's been my experience that if you press the person who doesn't want kids, they will eventually admit that they would support human extinction.
But as long as you're clear that you feel that people in general should keep having kids, but that you personally don't want one, that's fine.
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I never said the above. I said human beings are not good stewards of the earth and cited examples. I have not come across one person in this thread that has advocated for human extinction yet you keep bringing it up.
