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Don't have kids...
It's understandable that that's a sensitive issue for you, but the advice honestly is pretty accurate
I personally disagree with the sentiment that going child-free is the solution to ecological catastrophe. Any individual's decision to have children, or not, hardly compares to the systemic issues within agriculture and natural resource management which are causing it.
Well, the original comment in this thread which upset you came from your own instance. From where I'm sitting, that comment has been pretty much the only not-really-nice interaction you've had all day on here. Don't really see where this strawman is coming from.
It is only "nice" if you agree with the ideology of the owners completely, otherwise you are banned.
If your country doesn’t make it too hard, don’t forget adoption may be a solution for both.
Ah, so you support genocide.
...what? this is such an absurd non-sequitur. how do you arrive at this from "don't have kids". what is with kbin posters and takes like this man
This is "don't have kids" taken to its logical conclusion. Nothing absurd about this.
Pains me that more people are unable to follow the chain of thoughts and reach this conclusion.
Let me entertain a hypothetical solution. Would you suggest to Palestinians to "not have kids" to solve the ethnic conflict in that area?
If anything, this is a non-sequitur.
But maybe there is a grain of truth in there. People who were horrified that the lemmy dev and main mod of lemmy.ml was a proponent of hard left stayed away of lemmy (both SW and instances) and went to kbin instead. And since "don't have kids" is mostly popular on the more extreme left... you get self-selected opinions.
(honestly, I had no clue that I was not beehaw, just saw a braindead post and replied)
Telling one person that they can help out by not having kids is rather different from, as the dictionary says
Even suggesting to a whole group of people not to have kids is not the same as killing them.
So no, it's not a logical conclusion. It's illogical rhetoric. But you do you, I guess.
Your definition seems to be quite limited. Many acknowledged genocides would not be treated as such. According to Wikipedia, the UN Genocide Convention is much broader:
Spreading an ideology according to which one shouldn't have kids, thus preventing births, would fall into this definition.
You are correct, it is not the same as killing them, but no one was arguing that. Again, limiting genocide to the deliberate killing of individuals would be quite a lenient definition, and various laws that targeted various ethnic minorities would not be considered genocides, despite them being considered as ones and having the same exact effect. Consider forced sterilization. You don't have to forcibly kill anyone, yet probably everyone here would agree that it is a genocide.
You appear to be unable or unwilling to distinguish between "preventing births" and "voluntarily choosing not to have children."
Not sure why you're quite so interested in escalating the rhetoric here (forced sterilization? in a thread that started with individual action to save honeybees? really?) but in view of the first rule of Beehaw ("Be(e) nice") I'm not interested in joining you.
I would be happy to further discuss the distinction and show you my willingness. But since you are not willing to engage in discussion.
I am not "escalating the rhetoric". And I didn't suggest either that the way to not have honeybees is to "not have kids". If you want to talk about absurd statements, talk to that guy.
Even with this extended definition, your argument fails the most important criteria for genocide wtih the UN definition which is:
And it also fails to mention that the argument being made is voluntary and so it wouldn't fall under the act of :
The intent is always hard to prove. But I am glad that you agree that the only difference would be the intent ;)
Yet, if you read about some cases, you might see that the intent was not always proven or obvious, and some cases are considered genocide even without intent. For instance, take Holodomor, which is being more and more recognized as a genocide, even though unintentional. But I am happy to talk about other cases.
Let's remind ourselves that this is one person suggesting to not have kids on an online forum. Unless you're actually saying they have the intent or even a reason to believe they are targeting a specific demographic, this does not qualify nor is it close to qualifying to the definition of genocidee you gave.
It's not genocide if you just decide not to have kids