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Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans

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Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans

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How do you know it's sarcasm?

using intentionally reductive and simplistic reasoning, like " line goes up ", "which means we will all live in a utopia" as well as taking modern events and changing the details to make a ridiculous position "conduct a huge trek to reach countries like uhh India, China and so on and so forth" (people are in fact not in huge numbers immigrating to those countries, instead are going to the west)

Sounds plausible; but it could also simply be a young, enthusiastic person who doesn't know all the (correct) facts, as is often seen in the media in recent times. I also suspect that the text has changed since I wrote my answer; I remember the original post differently.

Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans

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post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

using intentionally reductive and simplistic reasoning, like " line goes up ", "which means we will all live in a utopia" as well as taking modern events and changing the details to make a ridiculous position "conduct a huge trek to reach countries like uhh India, China and so on and so forth" (people are in fact not in huge numbers immigrating to those countries, instead are going to the west)

Sounds plausible; but it could also simply be a young, enthusiastic person who doesn't know all the (correct) facts, as is often seen in the media in recent times. I also suspect that the text has changed since I wrote my answer; I remember the original post differently.

no, I am quite certain. If you're having genuine trouble here, it may point to you not having a very well formed theory of what those people actually think.

Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans

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post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds plausible; but it could also simply be a young, enthusiastic person who doesn't know all the (correct) facts, as is often seen in the media in recent times. I also suspect that the text has changed since I wrote my answer; I remember the original post differently.

no, I am quite certain. If you're having genuine trouble here, it may point to you not having a very well formed theory of what those people actually think.

I have no theory at all and am increasingly puzzled by what is happening.

Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans

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post #127

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It's a representative subhead. Those are a legit alt when the article's main title is baity. (Lots of past examples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) People often think that HN insists on using the original title but that's only half of the rule: "" Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " - note that word 'unless'. https://news.ycombin…

Right, so when it jives with moderator opinion, its fine to reverse the meaning. "don't editorialize"

There is inevitably some interpretation involved, but I wouldn't say it's as arbitrary as that.

Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans

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> I think that when someone says "can't afford" what they really mean is "I'd rather spend that money on something else". No, what many of us mean is that "We can't afford to give a child the kind of support and resources and opportunities that a responsible parent knows it is their job to provide." Many of us grew up poor, and saw people around us who didn't make it out. Many of them are still poor bordering on dest…

> We can't afford to give a child the kind of support and resources and opportunities that a responsible parent knows it is their job to provide. that's a lot of subjective terminology delivered as absolute truth. If I disagree with you on the amount of resources, let's say I think it's 10% of what you think, does that make me an irresponsible parent? If I double the resource expenditure for marginal improvement, doe…

> My problem wasn't resources, it was the priorities of my parents, and when I look at the world, in almost every circumstance I see the same thing. You'd have to go to Somalia to find real prominent examples of kids being fucked over by lack of resources, in almost every other case it's the priorities of parents.

This is a hell of a view, and seems to me like you're just assuming your family's circumstances are the norm. My single-parent mother always prioritized us first. We still had days where we went to sleep hungry.

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