VHEMT: The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
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VHEMT: The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
I see where they're coming from, intellectually, but at the same time emotionally I'm skeptical. Or at least, I believe the skepticism is emotional. How do others feel about this concept?
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To give one example. Cockroaches have little chance of surviving a supernova but humans have a much higher chance. So at some point the cockroach would need to bank on humans.
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My livelihood is mostly based on the opposite of your proposition (though I can profit from you too), so let me put it this way: I'm not worried.rose_thorn18 wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2018, 9:22 pm I'd like to discuss how people here feel about VHEMT: The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Their idea is to not breed so that eventually homo sapiens will become extinct and, in their words, prevent the "wholesale destruction of Earth’s ecology."
I see where they're coming from, intellectually, but at the same time emotionally I'm skeptical. Or at least, I believe the skepticism is emotional. How do others feel about this concept?
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First of all, what methods do they employ. If they ask that you use contraception, if both partners are believers of VHEMT and it is consensual not to have a child, then that is a good method. If they simply want you to reamin celibate your life that's probably not going to happen. I am in no way comparing VHEMT to the Hitler Youth, but when they repressed sexuality, when they proceeded to have a yearly event whereby both genders come together... one year had 900 (I'm probably getting my numbers wrong, but note I'm getting the scale factors of 10 correct) pregnancies when 100,000 or so teenagers came together. Trying to get people to remain celibate in some cases, I'm not denying that. But in the modern day with Western culture, I doubt someone born into late 20th century-21st century in the West is going to remain celibate (I am referring to the West and England and America, since America makes movies and most [good] TV shows, and I live in England. I know culture there but in Europe I'm not as knowledgeable).rose_thorn18 wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2018, 9:22 pm Their idea is to not breed so that eventually homo sapiens will become extinct and, in their words, prevent the "wholesale destruction of Earth’s ecology."
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The best contraception is female education. For example, Japan already has a known shrinkage rate. It's population is likely to shrink by a third in the next 80 years (and this includes immigration). For native Japanese it is an even sharper declineTigerNinja wrote: ↑February 28th, 2018, 4:40 pmFirst of all, what methods do they employ. If they ask that you use contraception, if both partners are believers of VHEMT and it is consensual not to have a child, then that is a good method. If they simply want you to reamin celibate your life that's probably not going to happen. I am in no way comparing VHEMT to the Hitler Youth, but when they repressed sexuality, when they proceeded to have a yearly event whereby both genders come together... one year had 900 (I'm probably getting my numbers wrong, but note I'm getting the scale factors of 10 correct) pregnancies when 100,000 or so teenagers came together. Trying to get people to remain celibate in some cases, I'm not denying that. But in the modern day with Western culture, I doubt someone born into late 20th century-21st century in the West is going to remain celibate (I am referring to the West and England and America, since America makes movies and most [good] TV shows, and I live in England. I know culture there but in Europe I'm not as knowledgeable).rose_thorn18 wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2018, 9:22 pm Their idea is to not breed so that eventually homo sapiens will become extinct and, in their words, prevent the "wholesale destruction of Earth’s ecology."
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You are aware that there is a thing called: "contraception", right?
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