Comment on if the total fertility rate drops and stays below global replacement rate, will humans disappear?

notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think if you hadn’t described it as bonkers and unethical you might have had some views on that! ;-)

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a bit surprised that nobody comments on the matriarchal speculation at the end. You’re all fine with that?

  Mathematically, I am not fine with that. The only way to have fewer men would be late-stage abortion or to murder newborns. Each woman would need to have 1.1 (surviving) children but still 2.3 born or nearly born children. While this may raise some ethical questions by itself, the greater crime is that it artificially inflates a metric without achieving the stated goal. It is lie by misapplication of statistics.

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  • notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why I said:

    Which would of course also require a collective form of prenatal sex selection

    If the goal would be to have a stable population size but with fewer births per woman, I think a collective form of prenatal sex selection (of the kind I describe above) would work.

    What this sex selection would look like would be another issue. Whether externally fertilized embryos are selected before they are placed in a womb, or whether it would involve forms of abortion (or even infanticide): it’s up to your imagination.

    But there are no lies, nor any misapplied statistics?

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