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music* — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:05:27 GMT

How far will this "news" go in today's world? Americans make up less than 5% of the World's population. Good Luck with that!

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JAP69 — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:22:55 GMT

The human race domesticated those creatures increasing the abundance of each species. <br />When the human race domesticated the livestock and poultry increased the human population by having a ready food source. It took the need of being a hunter to get that food source. <br />The need for agricultural food stuffs to feed those domesticated creatures increased putting a strain on the environment.<br />Human population increase is based on the food source available.<br />Go back to being hunters... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: NBC: Having Children Is 'Immoral' Because It Harms the Earth

eddessaknight — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:06:26 GMT

November 16, 2017

NBC: Having Children Is Immoral Because It Harms the Earth N

NBC which is still a national major media outlet, mind you ran the following headline written by a guy named Travis Rieder, who, according to his byline, is the director of the Master of Bioethics degree program and a research scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics.

The headline reads:

Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them.

On a base level, the argument is the same old tired trope that environmental extremists have been peddling for some time now that humans are subpar to the intrinsic value of a fichus, that that you should place the wellbeing of the common dung beetle over your own 5-year-old son, because #PlanetEarth.

But while equally as oblivious to its own inane, cultish drivel as most Hug-a-Grizzly propaganda, Rieder s article is perhaps even less apologetic than most, charging straight past the Maybe don t have 17 children, please line and heading pell-mell for Have kids, and I swear by my organic hemp poncho we will hunt them down territory.

Think that s an exaggeration? Take Reider s own words, in which he lines up his argument by comparing his own daughter to a murderer. If I release a murderer from prison, knowing full well that he intends to kill innocent people, then I bear some responsibility for those deaths even though the killer is also fully responsible

Something similar is true, I think, when it comes to having children: Once my daughter is an autonomous agent, she will be responsible for her emissions. But that doesn t negate my responsibility

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