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  • The nasty bit was telling a mother she has to have an abortion against her will.

    China now has the opposite problem of a declining population, which causes problems because of the working age population is small compared to the older population, you end up running out of money so you either have to tax more heavily or abandon older folks to their fate without helping them.

    The declining population problem is very common in wealthier countries.

    And lower population means fewer jobs. The number of jobs that need doing in a country doesn’t depend on the area of the land, it depends on the population size. The problems come when governments don’t build infrastructure. If you don’t build schools and hospitals and suchlike, three are fewer jobs in construction and less money going into the local economy, and schools and hospitals get crowded and do a worse job.







  • You have so much contempt for people who wanted to not have trump and would rather have the Democrats that you can’t find an ounce of compassion in your heart for the people who about to lose their social security, the women who have already lost their bodily autonomy, the trans folks who are losing their legal existence, the Gazans who are going to have their country replaced by a theme park, the Ukrainians who are being abandoned by America, the people affected badly by the acceleration of inflationary policies, etc, etc, etc.


  • Maybe have a little think about why people are so cross with you

    “…herd mentality…” “…just reinforce my decisions…” “…throw shit at the wall…” “…people like you…”

    That’s a no, then. You’re absolutely not going to do any reflection. Everyone else is wrong except you. Got it.

    “why trump and Putin are so pleased with your choices and your words.”

    <tumbleweed>




  • Uh, the politics was an example of similar debating techniques, I made no assertion about your political viewpoint at all, that’s entirely opaque to me.

    I also made no assertion about your personality, just that your viewpoint is atheist, and I made no ad hominem about you unless you have contempt for atheists and you consider that me asserting that you believe in atheism is offensive.

    I did assert that calling people “illogical”, “irrational” and “unintelligent” is condescending and dismissive and that if you don’t believe that, you need to improve your social awareness, and I absolutely stand by that.

    The words logical, irrational, and unintelligent are used because that is literally the topic of the post.

    You say that as if it’s an external environment that didn’t come from your own beliefs about religion. You’re the OP! You set the topic yourself! You yourself framed it this way! The self dissociation and lack of awareness of your own beliefs is even more striking than normal here.

    I don’t believe that you’re wrong about lack of scientific evidence on the issue of theism vs atheism at all. I do think you’re wrong about whether you’re at all neutral on the subject.