I would like to draw your attention to an opinion article at the State Hornet. I hesitated at first, because it has political complications, but then I realized that calling for the exinction of the human race shouldn’t be a debatable Left/Right issue.
Is she making up the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, you might ask? No, she is not. They are very serious.
The Sac Rag 
Squirty Tip if you are single you better hit that. It looks like a match made, um, somewhere.
This article speaks for itself so it’s hard to do anything but shake your head. The idea that the solution to poverty is to “exterminate” those who may end up underprivileged, or considered a drain on society, sounds alarmingly familiar. I seriously feel like having a baby just to spite those people but I’m figuring we can all agree that would be the wrong motivation. Plus I kind of feel sad for that girl.
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Increased abortion rates are statistically correlated with reductions in crime (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=174508) Think of how low our crime rate would be if abortions were mandatory for everyone!
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Intersting thought! At least the fed/state social policy is still in my favor, since the rest of you working shlubs pay for all my “illegitamte” kids’ housing, health care, food, and entertainment expenses.
C’mon people! The GOVERNMENT has decided that it WANTS people to breed in a NON-FAMILY setting! That’s why it PAYS people MORE for HAVING MORE KIDS OUTSIDE of traditional family settings. No father in the house? Here- have more money. More kids? Here, have a housing voucher- and free education too! Not my doing- that’s the system you fools voted into place. I’m just taking advantage of it to the max.
And you wonder whose genes will be around in 1000 years: the people who only have 1 kid because that’s all they can afford & also buy a house, pay off student loans, buy a car, etc, OR, the poeple who say “screw it” and hump anything that moves and have LOTS of kids and get free social welfare.
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I agree with her. People should no longer be encouraged to have kids.
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If you take the time to read the website it actually makes a lot of sense. It has nothing to do with eugenics or killing people who already exist…
http://www.vhemt.org/
People tend to get defensive because they have made the choice to have children and can’t imagine the world without their precious offspring.
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I agree to some extent as well. Doesn’t anyone else find it odd that those with no job and no money seem to reproduce at a fantastic rate while those of us ‘normal folk’ wait until the time is right?
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yeah, humans tend to get defensive when confronted with the horseshit idea that they should be eliminated. we’re fuckin crazy that way!!
telling people they should care less about their children–is that usually a good way to get them to listen to you?
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I once knew a guy who said he’d kill himself if he could be guarantee that 10,000 other people would do the same. He thought this was a very noble idea. For time to time, I myself indulge in fantasies of general holocaust — mainly when I’m in traffic and some jerk won’t let me change lanes. This sort of thinking is probably fairly common, though it rarely comes to term as an ideology, and even when it does, as in the example you cited, who pays it any mind? Not many.
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I’m not asking people to care less about the children that already exist…
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Not to be a total downer or anything but in fact this sort of thinking has come to terms as a popular ideology before and, at the time a lot of people called HOLOCAUST victims paid it a lot of mind. The website for VHEMT attempts to distinquish its philosphy from Hitlers by answering the question “Didn’t Hitler have the same idea” with the following: “Well, if you mean the medals for motherhood and warehouse nurseries full of babies for war and industry, or if you mean outlawing abortion, or forced sterilization of undesirables, or mass murder, then the answer is simply, ‘No.'” But at the same time the website endorses coerced population control and forced abortions as an ultimate means of achieving its goal of human “extermination.” By the way, their word choice, not mine. It’s not like the Holocaust happened overnight. Anyway if you read the guy’s website you can tell he’s none too bright. For example, one of his arguments bemoans the tragedy that “Each year, roughly 30 million people are denied their right to not be born into a family that doesn’t want them.” Huh? Sort of like children being denied “the right to work” because of child labor laws?
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