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> No children: no society.

Also not my problem. I'll be dead.

> What happened that after a few hundred thousand years of having families we suddendly need to be "absolutely certain" to have kids? Human nature is the EXACT other way round.

Human nature was to live out as a hunter-gatherer in some African savannah. Why would this hold any power over how people choose to live their lives in the Year of our Lord 2024?

> Concerning "being fully aware that our previous lifestyle would be no more": this in itself partly shows the problem.

You sound oddly interested in how I make life changing decisions that don't affect you in any way.



> Also not my problem. I'll be dead.

This is another example of a thought pattern often encountered. The thought of "being free to do what ever I feel like" and not caring.... is a meme.

> Human nature was to live out as a hunter-gatherer in some African savannah. Why would this hold any power over how people choose to live their lives in the Year of our Lord 2024?

You are taking a thing where Humans have proven to be quite flexible (the style of living) and bring it to a discussion that is, at its base, biological (no babies: no society). Sure, we can now say that it all doesn't matter if our more and more babyless societies go to die.... but is this really the way to go on?


I do not know you personally, but I reply to what you say because it is not only you who says it, but seems to exemplify what at least I see as a problem in society. I recognise thought patterns that I've heard before.


> Also not my problem. I'll be dead.

So why do you want to live now?


Because I am already alive. So I'll see this amusement park ride to its conclusion.


Isn't that a sad way to be and think?


Is it? I don't feel particularly sad.

There's nothing to be sad or happy about it. It is just a fact of life. Like gravity.




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