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by ygaf 3303 days ago
Can you point to the word "kill" in his post?
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Preventing some arbitrary part of the population from having children is basically eradicating that population, long term. I just used "kill", for simplicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

I find that equation of terms troubling. If I take that argument to its logical conclusion, we are all killers because we don't get as much children as previous generations. We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.
> We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

This is a completely false definition of "killing"

As is oblio's.
> We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

No we're not.

Killing requires something to exist and be alive first.

Ummmm.. false equivalence.

You're choosing not to have children. In wolfgke's description, he's choosing for you.

Big difference.