• @Deuces
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    19 months ago

    It’s hard to have this argument without coming across as advocating for eugenics, but I completely agree. The fact that increasing women’s education is so strongly correlated with decreased population growth is not a coincidence.

    https://wol.iza.org/articles/female-education-and-its-impact-on-fertility/long#:~:text=The correlation is strong and,children per woman to two.

    The difference between a eugenicists and whatever the hell I am is that I think the solution is to educate more people, not to control their right to reproduce.

    • @DuckOverload
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      19 months ago

      Right. There’s also a huge difference between taking measures that affect birth rates and actively rounding people up and culling them. Eugenics has got to be the most equivocated term in the English language. Except maybe god.