any and all pressure, yes, the universe just isn't built that way.
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long-term or even permanent relief from specific pressures, however, happens all the time.
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"Specific" being the key word. Malthusian pressures are quantitative (non-specific), and reciprocal to fertility rates.
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fair point, such pressures may recur eternally, but acknowledging this isn't exclusive to the right.
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I'd be more inclined to say, it isn't even general on the right. (But I've certainly never seen it remotely acknowledged anywhere else.)
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I'd say all initiatives aimed at population reduction acknowledge it, even if only tacitly so
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That's a very one-dimensional grasp of the problem though. The twin-fork of Malthusian relaxation is accelerating dysgenics. ...
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... If a population won't expand to the limit of the resource supply, it degenerates until the resource supply collapses back to the limit.
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the crucial difference between left&right lies in the left's rejection of the latter premise as binding
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which isn't that crazy since no such thing is on record & runaway automatization might compensate
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Objectively, it's the Platonic Idea of insanity, but I accept that subjectively it's rationalizable.
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besides sending ol' Plato spinning, that's a weird way to spell צָלַל
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