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> Malthus was wrong with his prediction, but he wasn't wrong with noticing obvious limits to growth. It takes special effort to consciously stop noticing it. Malthus premised his h…

Strawman. Strong environmental protections and positive population growth can coexist. And, of course, we should be striving in our generation to solve these existential challenges…

> reproduction ... is most likely going to fuck up the planet Malthusian fallacy. The idea of a "population bomb" has been indoctrinated into the modern mind of certain political o…

No, eugenics really should be tainted forever. Cystic fibrosis can be heritably cured without eugenics, e.g. hopefully within a few decades via gene editing something like CRISPR. …

Eugenics has an unacceptably high -- and excruciatingly documented -- risk of mutating into a demographic weapon wielded by racial groups that have attained dominance by historical…

Unlikely. The perceived benefits of eugenics would be too tantalizing for those social engineers in control of "licensing" the right to reproduce. Robust markets for DNA sequencing…

That wouldn't lead to eugenics, it would very much already be eugenics.

That would be eugenics. The how-to gusto and historical tone-deafness of three commenters in this chain are flabbergasting.