OK first, The Tragedy of the Commons is the assumption that poor people (being inferior to the rich) will waste their resources squabbling over it out of greed. It says nothing about who should, or should not breed. Only that the poors can't be trusted with wealth, conveniently obligating the wealthy to take it all.
Second, when you say "The one thing we don't really need is more humans," that is eugenics. You can't express your opinion that people should be having fewer babies, without deciding who should and shouldn't breed. I wasn't going to accuse you of being a Nazi, but I did want to point out that personal choice goes out the window, when you are making decisions for the good of all. People like to deny that, as if their choice to stop shopping at BigMartCorp will mystically translate to other people doing it.
Not all collective action is fascism, even if you make judgements about other people's actions, and seek to regulate them.
Cy
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2026-07-25 19:09:50 UTC
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