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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:01 PM Original message |
What about Voluntary Human Extinction? |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know about voluntary extinction |
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griffi94 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. i think anybody who wants to be extinct |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. I can tell you what I think... |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. have any of them committed suicide yet? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Their plan is focused on not having any more children. As opposed to suicide. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 05:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
43. At first, voluntary extinction was about suicide, but they couldn't sell it. |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. I've done my part |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. Great idea. Humans have and continue to drive the life on this planet to extinction. |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Maybe we should keep |
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FVZA_Colonel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #7 |
32. But it would never happen voluntarily. |
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LongTomH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. Shades of National Lampoon's "Lemmings" Album! |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
9. You first. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
11. When resources become scarce we will have a huge war over them and kill 1/2 of our population off. |
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markbark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
12. Can You Hear Me Morpheus? |
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markbark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. delete dupe |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. Sign me up! |
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donco (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. Hhmm….and what if their wrong? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
16. fucking unnatural |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:03 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Wasn't that emotional black and white thinking? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 02:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. That's just it |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. So the deeply personal decision |
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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. Don't worry, just wait a while. It'll happen. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
19. What a dumb concept. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. OTOH, |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. How do you define a negative effect on the ecological web? nt |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Well, I'd say causing the most massive extinction event since the |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Like I said, it's human existence MOST of us care about. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. The problem with that is, they can get along better without us |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
49. We can survive without canaries. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:27 PM Response to Reply #49 |
53. That's "canaries in the coal mine". |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 06:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
48. if humans cease to exist, who cares about the state of the world?nt |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:09 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. How about the species that replaces us? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I don't see that benefit. They give the cause of population control an idiotic face. |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. When they promote that idea, they make people who care about the |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
34. Makes no sense from a biological or evolutionary standpoint? |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Yes it's very daft idea... |
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Stoic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
27. My immediate reply to this would be... |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
28. Voluntary extinction? no thanks. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. Doing my part! Well, that's just because I'm not going to waste my time or money raising them |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
35. It's a fun site to read, with some good facts and excellent rebuttals to the pro-natal crowd. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
36. Somehow, at least two posters here think it means deliberate, mass suicide. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. The person who started this thing used to sell it on an atheist board a few years ago. |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 05:47 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. oh really? |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 05:49 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. It is possible that another person started this paticular website, but the language is the same. |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. Actually I was being sarcastic when I mentioned suicide... |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 10:07 PM Response to Reply #44 |
54. Well, limiting reproduction would involve your using contraception -- |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
37. Women can save the world = one child each = halve the population each generation. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
38. If you can talk people in the third world into eating their children, you'll be on your way. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
39. Splendid! They can go first! |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
40. It used to be a suicide cult, now it's a don't breed cult. |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
41. one child was enough for me, I support negative population growth |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
47. Dumb |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
50. this is brilliant |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
51. I don't know how I feel about this group |
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