This article is primarily about market hurdles to a male contraceptive.

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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t help if I don’t want kids now but know I want them later

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      1 year ago

      That isn’t a good situation to be in but completely understandable. I don’t envy you. The treadrope of finding people to trust and always having to guard and protect yourself is not fun.

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        Hey, don’t attack what people want. This is a biological urge and hard to decide against. If you don’t want children, that is cool for you. If others do, that is also fine for them.

        The world is messed up and getting worse, obviously, but may won’t share our cynicism and I probably don’t want to drag people down with me. It’s hard to build enthusiasm after.

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          If what people want is dumb, I’m going to call it dumb. The planet is alternately on fire or under water. It’s time to make many drastic changes, but billionaires are still flying rockets, flying private jets across the world for shopping or soccer, and everyone else is driving SUVs and turning up the A/C until they have to put a sweater on. :)

          If you’re not depressed by the current situation (nevermind the prospects for the future), you’re not paying attention.

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            I am bothered about those things, but choose not to let fear and anger run my life. Those emotions without action are pointless. Just suffering with no gain, and what’s the point in dwelling in negative emotion?

            The world is not a good place, are you helping make it a better place calling people dumb?

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        I’ve decided to at least keep it net neutral. If I have 2 kids then my net contribution to population growth is 0.

        If you really want to stop ballooning population growth, help educate people who have less access to educational resources, and help give them access to healthcare; birth control included.

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          If your “compromise” is to do your part to keep the population at an unsustainable number, I only hope you don’t get to watch them suffer in the coming collapse.

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            I feel like you completely missed the last half of my comment.

            Education and access to birth control will help drastically to prevent and avoid both overpopulation and/or the problems that come with it.

            The issue isn’t you our me having a couple kids, it’s the people having 5+ kids.

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              I’m talking about taxing billionaires and billionaire toys until it’s infeasible to be a billionaire anymore.

              The guillotines come later, when we continue doing nothing until it’s too late and the starving, drowning, burning hoardes are looking for someone to blame.