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by NoMoreNicksLeft 953 days ago
> 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?