[ninetyninenine]

Don’t be biased because you love dogs. Face the truth.

The economy IS a factor.

But sinking resources into a dog that offers no evolutionary or biological benefit IS ALSO a factor.

There is no other way to look at this. You are committing an act of irrationality if you refuse to see dogs from a biological perspective.

Porn sits in the same area. Hijacking biological instincts to prevent reproduction.

We are looking at multiple causal sources that prevent us from having more children. In the same way men use porn to assuage our sexual urges, many women use dogs to help assuage their maternal instincts. Don’t let your emotions cloud your logic.

This article did not deserve to get flagged simply for offering their own perspective.

[Arainach]

Dogs have nothing to do with it. People are choosing not to have kids, especially in America, because they can barely pay for rent, food, and (if they're fortunate) healthcare for themselves. Going out to eat is a luxury that even software engineers earning 6 figures are having to reevaluate with prices to say nothing of other entertainment.

Third places and opportunities to meet people are greatly reduced because everything's taken over by venture capital chains and so expensive, and even if you meet someone the odds of the two of you making enough money to afford to raise a child is low.

If you have that money, you're probably educated enough to see that life for your child will be significantly worse than life for you right now - the rise of authoritarianism, climate change, the active ongoing destruction of American economic power and soft political power, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, disinformation causing massive chunks of the country to oppose science, education, and other things, discrimination based on gender and race....we're in for some very hard times and it takes a certain mindset to decide that you want to subject a child you love to all of it.

It's not the dogs.

[ninetyninenine]

It's the economic issue AND a dogs issue AND a birth control issue AND porn a porn issue.

Sperm getting launched into socks or condoms instead of vaginas, not enough money and maternal instincts being assuaged by puppies all contributes to the problem.

The mechanisms that force the population to expand are designed to go against our judgement. Sexual instincts, birth control and maternal instincts are all designed to override our judgement and push the population forward at the detriment of of the human individual. Are you poor? Evolution does not give a fuck, it designed you to be horny and to have maternal instincts so you will increase the population no matter how fucked up your situation is.

But thanks to modern technology we've learned to conquer these things. Puppies, condoms and porn. All contributors to the issue.

Bro, I own a dog. I love dogs and condoms. Doesn't mean I'm going to let my love of dogs and condoms cloud my objective reasoning. Also I'm still going to use a condom when I fuck some random hot girl because my individual situation is more important To Me then the overall population problem. It's called the tragedy of the commons.