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Because it is misanthropic to talk about it that way. You're describing thinking conscious beings that have needs and that are born without their choosing. Construing people as an invasive species is not going to be productive or win you any points in a serious conversation on the subject.

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This won't be popular, but remember just 10 years ago when people were talking about the environmental advantages of a mass die-off of humans? It was trendy for a bit to spitball about how much better off the environment would be with an x% decrease in human population as a result of a global death event. In fact, "we need a new plague" was a running joke on online environmentalist forms for a while. Funny how an actual pandemic made those same people glibly taking up the advantages pull a 180 when it was their grandmother who was in the x% who were going to die.

> remember just 10 years ago when people were talking about the environmental advantages of a mass die-off of humans

No. I recommend finding better friends, or choosing different online reading material. We live in an age of information abundance as well as opinion abundance. Your attention is valuable, and there are better communities and reading options out there.

This reply is oddly presumptuous for no good reason.

I would think praising democide would be the presumptuous part of that exchange.

And where in my derision and mockery of the idea of democide, and folks who support it, as glib and thoughtless do you see me praise it? Looks like you've misread, or misconstrued, my comment as the exact opposite of what I had written.

With respect to changing what I read, I like being exposed to opinions I disagree with, even ones I find abhorrent like this. It's useful to survey the opinions out there, even the nonsense ones.

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