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Pronatalism

Parent shaming is natural
Only societies that manage to dampen natural resentment against parents can survive
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Tove K
61
Killjoys will inherit the future
Combining work and family is hard. Combining leisure and family is even harder.
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Tove K
20
Human procreation is fuelled by the spirit of war
Group selection weakened nepotism. Thereby it weakened the instinct to raise a family for the sake of it.
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Tove K
25
Girls don't want to have fun
Women only dare to have numerous children if they can count on their men to stay loyal
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Tove K
84
Oppression of males is the gender oppression of the future
Convincing men to choose a high-investment reproductive strategy is the key to raising fertility.
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Tove K
161
Should we go to space and stay there?
Writing boring things about important subjects.
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Tove K
17
Society has defeated the family
All societies exist in a tense relationship with families. Current high-tech society is the first to win that battle outright.
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Tove K
30
Make children part of the competition of life
Children have increasingly become a pastime. And people can only spend so much on pastimes. The solution is to arrange competitions where parents have a…
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Tove K
40
Parent shaming causes the demographic collapse
No one likes to be shamed by their peers. One easy way to avoid it is to abstain from children.
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Tove K
35
Every time someone says “Please think of the children”, fertility sinks by a millimeter
The more every child needs to be thought of, the fewer children there can be
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Tove K
35
Building Utopia: Endurable version
Designing a society that is pleasant today is not enough. It has to be pleasant to our descendants too
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Tove K
16
Behind the fertility crisis, there is an army of worried mothers
Human females did not necessarily evolve to want many children. They evolved to worry about the children they have.
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Tove K
35
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