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by retzkek 672 days ago
What if you could ask an octopus the same, and it suggested that dying after breeding is best for society to prevent the problems of overpopulation [1]? Unlike your hypothetical aliens, octopodes live in the same resource-constrained world we do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Lifespan