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Children are a sign of optimism and hope. Dying societies forgo them.


What are you saying, that the shithole countries which have the highest birth rates have the most optimistic people? Do you not understand the desperate circumstances under which a couple can have 10 kids?

Children are a sign of optimism in a poetic sense only. It doesn't affect how many children are actually born.


It certainly does when people have access to birth control, which they generally don’t in “shithole countries”.




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