TIL there's a Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, the goal of which is to return to the Earth to good health by agreeing on a set of policies designed to end mankind.

The use of social coercion raises a bunch of ethical concerns when applied to something as apparently simple as smoking, so turning that power on human reproduction really sets off alarms. Do you really want a socio-political system in charge of breeding? Have you ever dealt with an HOA? That's what we're talking about here.

Your larger argument about overpopulation and the need to deal with it as a species also is far more problematic than your post admits. Your argument comes down to collectivism in it's worse sense, the idea that the individual person is a problem, a distraction from the "true" interest as determined by the whole. That very idea is so repugnant, and so roundly condemned by history and philosophy, that any move in that direction demands a most robust and skeptical opposition.

To be blunt, I am personally far more on the "keyboard" end of "keyboard warrior", but this is exactly the kind of thing that will get my butt out on the streets. And most tragically, I think many of those I'm opposing won't actually understand why.

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