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New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
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Re: New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
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What? Any attempt to regulate or restrict birth control against women is consistently held up as the “patriarchy” because it restricts women’s autonomy. Now not restricting it is patriarchy? Seems like literally everything is. So far, men’s birth controls haven’t been legalized because the risks have been pretty massive. The last trial I heard of had a massive risk of suicide. “Patriarchy” has no part of it.
Heard it said that "Patriarchy" played a horrible role in how the pill was developed and tested. In first trials in South America women stopped taking it, there were uninvestigated health issues and side effects and one death from bleeding without autopsy, but since no one got pregnant, it was declared a success.
Not to say that modern options are not better.
I think it's historically accurate to say early male pill investigations have been infinitely more concerned with male health. OK to be ashamed of that.
If you live in a patriarchy many things are affected by it, even opiniones that appear contradictory.
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Vasalgel (a reversible injection that prevents your swimmers from making it into the sauce) is another interesting one that has never made it to release for perplexing reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm...
This one requires two injections right into the most awkward bit of ye old twig and berries, the first to numb the pain from the second. Afterwards you walk around sore with a swollen scrotum for a week. Doesn't seem that perplexing. Unless you're into that sort of thing, not that there is anything wrong with that..
Vasalgel (a.k.a. RISUG) may not be for everyone, but even 1% of the male population would be a gigantic market, and yet RISUG never found corporate backing (it's been around for 40 years).
I've been waiting for this for more than 10 years now, ever since I've learned about it.
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Do we really need more people? America has almost 350 million, and is completely dwarfed by India and China. That seems like plenty of people to me.
This depends. Do you want someone to be able to take care of you after you retire? Medical care, that sort of thing? If so, that means that you need people. People younger than you. People with some sort of societal attachment to you that results in them not just tossing your entire generation into a metaphorical woodchipper, because taking care of old people is a ton of work. The traditional way to ensure that such…
If I had the option to kill myself off once I hit the point that I'm no longer able to look after myself then I'd be pretty happy with that. And frankly with what I've seen of last the years of my elderly relatives lives even with care, I rather hope that I do have that option. Dementia looks no fun at all.
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Yes — it’s absolutely psychotic to hope for a mass loss of human life and the decline of our species. There’s no reason to think it would make things better — and many to think a massive population decline would come with a technology regression and stall of our advancement. I think such ideas are a form of mental illness, often stemming from delusions about the world.
Not a decline but a stabilisation. That's really what's needed to make our planet sustainable. Right now the absolute worst thing you can do for the environment is to have a child as a westerner. And we're not hoping for loss of life. Just a more balanced population in the long term. We can't keep growing until every square meter of this planet is covered with people, I'm sure that's clear. Eventually resources will…
Western Europe, the US and China are already below replacement. If you have bought into this line of thinking then you should be saying:
>> Right now the absolute worst thing you can do for the environment is to have a child as an African. [0]
Because today's African babies are tomorrow's European migrants, who will bolster the ranks of the polluting global elite.
But we don't want to go here do we?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
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This depends. Do you want someone to be able to take care of you after you retire? Medical care, that sort of thing? If so, that means that you need people. People younger than you. People with some sort of societal attachment to you that results in them not just tossing your entire generation into a metaphorical woodchipper, because taking care of old people is a ton of work. The traditional way to ensure that such…
I just read an article about how immigrants (to the us) working in elder care were more culturally suited than Americans to the work, having more respect for old age. So it might be just the opposite, or perhaps respect for elders is a consequence of the demographic shift over time? Or just correlated?
> I just read an article about how immigrants (to the us) working in elder care were more culturally suited than Americans to the work
Immigrants to the US are more financially suited than Americans to the work. Same goes for immigrants in almost any country, or women, or minorities, or anyone who is willing to take a small amount of money for a lot of work. They have various and diverse cultures, just like native-born Americans do.
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It depends on the systems. Social security is a system that would be under greater pressure, not less.
Hot take: social security is a Ponzi scheme.
If new members join the scheme at the rate that old members die, and the average member expects to get out what they put in, then it is a very sustainable Ponzi scheme.
In theory you'd have the problem of inflation if each generation put all their contributions into a dedicated fund which was later used to pay their expenses in old age, but fortunately the current contributors can pay for the current beneficiaries, which mitigates that problem.