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  • The most effective way of population control is education, curbing of religious influences and raising of living standards. Just look up “demographic change”. In the 1880, German fertility rates were between 5.5 and 5. That’s on par with modern day Niger and Mali, some of the most fertile nations in the world. As soon as the mortality rates of German children dropped and a social net was established, rates fell. And this has happened all over the world. Unless we get taken in by abrahamic fertility cults again, a healthier, better educated and equal society will stabilize the world’s population at around 9 billion. And we can easily support them, if we work towards it. No need for pseudoeugenics or other population control mechanisms.









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    15 days ago

    Oh Peterson is extremely annoying. His preferred style of discussion is essentially an upgraded version of the Shapiro method:

    1. Throw out an argument
    2. When this argument is attacked, immediately derail the discussion to talk about definitions
    3. Whenever it seems like your opponent tries to define something by using a different word, interrupt them by questioning the definition of that word.

    It’s the idea of platonic ideals but perverted, so that you cannot ever describe things, because to describe you have to use other things to compare them to. Critically, he never uses this argument against himself. His definitions, however circular they are, are unassailable and end up so distorted that he essentially creates his own language.

    Take the word “believe”. To Peterson, this is defined as “willing to give up your life before renouncing a thing”. Who TF uses this word that way?