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Having children is not financially nor fiscally sensible. And it's also bad for the environment.

On the contrary. If you care about the environment, it is your duty to have kids and raise them caring about the environment.

There are already enough people on Earth, such that our civilization is very unsustainable. Consider adopting existing children if you actually care for the environment.

That might not work if care for the environment in genetic.

It is not.

Prove it.

One can't prove a negative. The burden of proof is on you here.

I did not state a definite answer, they did. So they should be able to back it up.

Also, it’s possible to prove some negatives. Mostly though the definitions of terms.

If the good and the evil are encoded in human genes, then we should kill all bad people and all problems in the world will be solved.

That’s hardly the only option, still…

Let’s assume we could kill off all the sociopaths, your point is?

My point is, your expectation of genes being directly connected with the good or evil, or with sociopathy, is naive at best and racist at worst, while at the same time you're using it as an attempt to deny the devastating impact of procreation on the environment.

Ahh, many of your basic assumptions here are false.

A goldfish can’t be an environmentalist so some minimum cognitive function is required thus demonstrating a genetic component. Note however that doesn’t suggest a goldfish or a human with such extremely diminished capacity is evil. Your good/evil axis and environmentalism is thus clearly separated.

Even if you assume as you suggest there is some good or evil DNA suggesting “it’s racist” would imply a specific distribution of these genes along racial lines. Which is itself deeply offensive because it comes from a place of deep seated racism.

People of extremely diminished capacity are also still worthy of adoption. I could go on, but people as horrible as you should be shunned.

> A goldfish can’t be an environmentalist so some minimum cognitive function is required thus demonstrating a genetic component.

Show me any evidence that cognitive capacity of humans depends on genes.

> Note however that doesn’t suggest a goldfish or a human with such extremely diminished capacity is evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

> People of extremely diminished capacity are also still worthy of adoption

I never suggested otherwise.

Making better people is the only way to make a better world.

oh okay bro not gonna have kids now thanks for the heads up!!

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