[CelestialTeapot]

>Which, if you think about it, makes the "you're selfish to have kids" a sort of species-wide suicidal ideation. But then, non-suicidal people are sort of selfish, wanting to continue to keep living.

You do know that you will continue living if you don't have kids, right?

I'm glad to hear you're not selfish, however you do seem inappropriately judgy.

What have you done to ensure "humans exist 200 years from now?" Have you done anything to minimize your carbon footprint? Do you walk/bike/take the bus to work instead of drive a petrol/diesel vehicle? Have you petitioned your government to stop using fossil fuels and demand they spend money on green infrastructure and science to improve current technology?

What have you done to stop senseless wars? Do you help out at food banks? Do you support government programs to ensure that children get adequate nutrition, you know, programs like SNAP, WIC, or free school lunches/breakfasts? Since you are so invested in the species, I'm sure you're also in favor of national health service to ensure every person, documented or not, receives adequate health care.

I applaud your efforts supporting these things and am curious what other things you think will ensure the human species is not endangered by climate change, natural disasters, wars, infertility, and so forth.

[Gibbon1]

> What have you done to ensure "humans exist 200 years from now?"

Drive by comment. The only way humans cease to exist in 200 years is if something horribly catastrophic happens. Which is much more like to happen if the population grows exponentially. And much less likely if the population declines steadily over the next 200 years.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

> You do know that you will continue living if you don't have kids, right?

This might supposed to be some snarky gotcha, but it's just dumb. I know with absolute certainty I won't continue to live, for every human dies eventually.

You could replace the "continue" with "temporarily", but it takes the bite out of it.

> I'm glad to hear you're not selfish, however you do seem inappropriately judgy.

People should judge. The 20th century experiment of non-judgementalness has been an abject failure. If one cannot analyze and determine what does and does not work (the act of judging), then one will continue to do things that don't work.

The "let's not reproduce" thing isn't working. And it's slightly disturbing that we had to run the experiment to foresee the results.

> What have you done to ensure "humans exist 200 years from now?" Have you done anything to minimize your carbon footprint?

Non sequitur nonsense.

One rhetorical about something that an individual can't actually do (though I've done my part), followed up with environmentalist propaganda that is commonly used to instill the proper behavioral sterility that you've spayed the zoomers with.

> What have you done to stop senseless wars?

If I could, why would I? Do you believe that they're serious extinction threats?