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Pro-Natalism

A couple points of contention:
1-Maintaining other cultures (in the name of pluralism and competition)
2-Practices decided by subsidiarity (Circumcision)
3-Using kids to inflate your own existential importance
4-Reproduction as evidence for the validity of practice (Circumcision)
5-Cultual Imperialism (Parent can't be the final arbiter)
6-The parallel between reproduction and happiness (Paperclip maximizing)
7-Cultual zealotry
8-Capital Punishment

Hym "(8) So, when it comes to practices like capital punishment, how does that translate to how your kids are going to interact with other kids? You've programmed into them a set of behaviors and when somone they are interacting with doesn't adhere to those behaviors what are they going to do? They are going to do what you taught them to do. That's how you get Jordan Neely. That's how you get George Floyd 2.0 being told 'You're fine' as he gets crushed to death.

So, no. What I see here is the exact sort of Social Darwinism I've been railing against. If I grant you the need for you teach or do with your kids whatever you want (7) what assurance do I have that it isn't going to devolve into cultural zealotry that (8) feeling justified in using capital punishment against me to coerce either my compliance and/subjugation? I also don't see how you don't see the parallel in your paperclip maximizing analogy. How are you not treating humans as reproduction maximizing machines and (3) using your kids to inflate your own existential importance? This is just more Jordan Peterson bullshit where you abdicate any complicity in the lives of the people around you while simultaneously ingoring the peripheral effect you have by engaging in practices that don't actually hold up to scrutiny in the ideological landscape. Your ideology is pernicious. You can't be allowed to inflate the validity of your bad ideas by breeding people explicitly to believe the things you believe. Especially because it can only continue to exist if people like me are silenced."
Pro-Natalism

by Hym Iam June 17, 2024