Thought the "world is overpopulated" meme had died but apparently it is still common among educated liberals in 2019. (Majority of people I had dinner with last night in DC believed some version of this).
I think near-far sounds right, but also I think passive suicidality/nihilism is pretty common -- "sure, I'm going about my daily life like normal, but I wouldn't *mind* if all human life was magically wiped out, it would at least mean my current worries would be gone."
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Possibly! But I feel like many people just *say* that but don't *really* believe it, i.e. when you make the problem concrete for them they suddenly shrink from the consequences (e.g. "would you be happy if everyone around this table suddenly disappeared?")
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This was also mostly people working on curing cancer, in various ways, so I had fun asking them why they were trying to cure cancer if they also believed the world was too populated.
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