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It’s symptoms all the way down. If the system decides it needs more births it will ban abortion, and that’s not a moral failure on the system’s part, it’s an indictment of the symptoms itself.


Hans Rowling found that one of the best way to increase numbers of births is to reduce education for women. Or at least there’s strong correlation between both.


I'm not sure how useful this is. Isn't not like we're going to throttle education for women like it's a governor for fertility rate, right?


The system has no morals, but every person operating within it does. If the system demands what it needs from us without regard for morality, it's on us, as moral agents, to refuse compliance. The system can demand what it wants, but no one is obliged to give it anything.

If the point is that the system will coerce what it needs from us, then it deserves not merely to perish, but to be destroyed, actively, deliberately, and ruthlessly. If births are the air it breathes, let us suffocate it by refusing to bear its children. Let it choke on its own demands.


>The system has no morals, but every person operating within it does.

Most people just have whatever morals the system gives them.


Abortion won’t change the game you would have to ban condoms and birth control


If you can't successfully ban cannabis and cocaine (in prisons no less). You can't effectively ban condoms and birth control




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