Global fertility rates to plunge in decades ahead, new report says | CNN
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A new study projects that global fertility rates, which have been declining in all countries since 1950, will continue to plummet through the end of the century, resulting in a profound demographic shift.
  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    45·
    1 year ago

    I vastly prefer non-optimal life to not existing at all.

    How could you possibly know that? Do you remember not existing?

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
      9·
      1 year ago

      If I didn’t want to exists I would commit a suicide. The fact that I don’t want to do that indicates to me that it’s better for me to exist than not.

      • force@lemmy.world
        34·
        1 year ago

        There is a massive difference between never existing and taking existence away from someone that already has it

        • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          From subjective experience theres no difference. The moment you cease to exists you could just as well have never existed.

          Also not existing is not something you do. Choosing to prevent something for existing that otherwise would have is. We’re however getting quite far from my original argument here which is that not making children because you think the world is an awful place and life is not worth living is, in my opinion, a bad reason.

          • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Have you considered practicing how to convey your thoughts and opinions in a less arrogant and off-putting way?

            • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
              2·
              1 year ago

              I think it’s mostly up to the reader at what tone they’re going to intrepret my writing. I don’t notice such color in that. Then again I’m probably autistic so what do I know.