It seems like anti-natalism is a post-hoc justification for people who are forced by circumstance not to have kids, either because they cant find a good mate or because they live in expensive and crowded cities where the cant justify the time or money expense or dont have the space, or because they have biological reasons they shouldn't or can't.
That being said, today I was reflecting on Richard Dawkins' concept of memetics. People have taken the concept in a vacuum to mean only ideas that can survive do so, but I think that the concept can be expanded to the survival and replication of the beings who have those ideas. Imagine a hypothetical belief that one should immediately kill themselves. Anyone who believes such an idea and puts it into practice will not be around, and their ideas will end with them. Let's take another hypothetical belief that you must do everything you can to survive, reproduce fruitfully, and pass that belief onto your offspring. Of course, such an idea would be more widespread because it was being passed on, but it would also be more widespread because the people with that belief would survive and thrive too.
Although certain ideologies appear to be thriving, they are destined to die out as the people who hold them die out. On long enough time frames, ideas that protect the people who hold them will outcompete ideas that end the bloodlines of anyone who hold them.
That being said, today I was reflecting on Richard Dawkins' concept of memetics. People have taken the concept in a vacuum to mean only ideas that can survive do so, but I think that the concept can be expanded to the survival and replication of the beings who have those ideas. Imagine a hypothetical belief that one should immediately kill themselves. Anyone who believes such an idea and puts it into practice will not be around, and their ideas will end with them. Let's take another hypothetical belief that you must do everything you can to survive, reproduce fruitfully, and pass that belief onto your offspring. Of course, such an idea would be more widespread because it was being passed on, but it would also be more widespread because the people with that belief would survive and thrive too.
Although certain ideologies appear to be thriving, they are destined to die out as the people who hold them die out. On long enough time frames, ideas that protect the people who hold them will outcompete ideas that end the bloodlines of anyone who hold them.
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