Ordinary Banana

drugs suicide

religious fervor

war

Some of @Evolving_Moloch's recent research on the topic suggests that may be true. Getting all the unemployed extra mouths of two tribes to kill each other reduces suffering of those left. Modern society doesn't have mass disease or fire outbreaks, and we are in the long-peace.

I've been having fun finding pro-lifers who romanticize "the snap" from the avengers as being a necessary solution to suffering, and arguing with them that the infertility found in modern society and implicit anti-natalism is the same thing without all the death.

That weird dichotomy of beliefs shows up a lot in people who consume the kind of conspiracy theories that Alex Jones talks about.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/1104686135513616389 …