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[+] -12 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Thankfully natural selection is a thing and this movement will die out.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Very normal thing to say about people who simply don't feel the need to procreate

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  • [+] -11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    simply don’t feel the need to procreate

    This in itself is very normal.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    It is. As is being part of the LGBTQ+ community, which also isn't about to die out any time soon despite being the exact antithesis of natural selection.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Exactly. Being 2SLGBTQIA+ and being childfree may also be about environmental psychology or community psychology rather than about genetics.

    I remember reading this one study that found that for every older brother a man has hus chances of ending up gay were increased by 33% for each. How does you having more brothers change YOUR genetics? Does a person with a uterus having more male babies change her genetics so that 'TheGay Genes'(we have not been able to identify definiteively which genes can lead to 'gayness') becomes expressed more inside her and her offspring? This connection may have nothing to do with genetics. Maybe its just a psychological aspect that a male with more brothers starts to look up towards and seek protection from males more often than they look up to and are protected by non-males, so maybe psychologically speaking they are more likely to seek out a male partner when they grow up. 🤷🏿‍♂️

    SO being gay or 2SLGBTQIA+ cant really 'die out' because it may not be completely genetically linked it may also be about the community psychology that a person grows up with.

    I cant say for certain since I dont have any certification in genomics or psychology so take all of the preceding with a grain of salt

    I will say that I am childfree from a psychological aspect and not at all from a biological or genetic aspect. I have a breeding kink but Ive come to realize that the modern world and the modrrn economy is not one which makes me want to raise ANY children. If the capitalistic economy and genocidal socieites that we have today didnt exist I would definitely have children ...but over the years my desire to breed has been battered and battered by the awful things Ive seen people do to each other, the awful things that have happened to me, and the awful things I hear about people doing to each other on the news...

    There's numerous people out there just like me who would want to have children but realize that they dont want their children to be blown up by some crazy politicians' needless war or that raising children is too expensive for them right now. ... And so I got snipped and some of those people will also be getting snipped!

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Less normal: building a community centered on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The prediction is probably right, and it does not bear on the claim. Judging a proposition by its reproductive fitness is a category error: on that test, celibate monastic traditions and the Shakers are philosophically invalid. Truth is not subject to natural selection. The asymmetry of suffering is either a sound structure or it is not, settled by the validity of its premises and the coherence of its inferences, not by the reproductive habits of those who accept it. Treating memetic success as legitimacy would validate every popular delusion in history and invalidate every unpopular truth; the Copernican revolution was self-defeating for the better part of two centuries. The view also does not require universal adoption: it requires that whoever exists develop the capacity to address sentient suffering structurally.

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