Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Pressure to procreate: inside Hungary’s baby drive | Europe's Baby Bust" video.

@Subject82 in order to perpetuate endless cycle of suffering, you mean? "Genetic line" is a buzzword, all life on Earth is related, so we are all part of the same huge genetic lineage
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Reproduction = forcing new people into life full of risks and suffering. Stop pushing it as an ideal, or something preferable
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@meister7868 I am a professional biologist, and I cannot fathom how can someone care about the specific kind of DNA molecule's survival more than about their own interest as individual or interest of other sentient conscious individual humans. Also, genetic differences between all humans are less than 0.1%. I don't need to reproduce myself to have the genes identical to my own passed on, millions like you already did it for me 🤣
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@krystjanchanerley9288 it is natural, called "demographic transition". Read about it. First death rates fall then birth rates fall. Developing nation are going through it now, developed world already undergone the full transition
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Population decline won't cause collapse, unlike environmental destruction. Lack of proper reforms to counteract rapid aging can cause problems, but not population decline itself
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Ooki Cooki well, millions don't act like us, so shut up. Also, no, population decline itself cannot cause collapse. Lack of proper reforms to deal with aging can
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@SweetSmoke21 not everyone does
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@Stuka Obergruppentruppenstuppensturm optimists are delusional
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@hannibalbarca7220 my comment didn't even mention gender
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@jeroenarendonk4160 human species is a danger to all other life forms and to itself. I am not sure its existence should be prolonged for as long as possible.
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@treacherousjslither6920 to perpetuate the endless cycle of suffering and treating each other like garbage, probably...
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