• jaycifer@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It would cause issues for society as a whole. If everyone stopped having kids right now education institutions, for example, would stop existing as the current kids aged out. If things got to a point where having children became acceptable again, that institutional knowledge would be greatly debilitated if not lost entirely. A gradual decline would allow schools to shrink to match that decline rather than stopping entirely.

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      11 days ago

      Why would universities and research work stop existing in this hypothetical world you’re imagining?

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        11 days ago

        Well I was mostly thinking of K-12 schools, and it would be because there are no K-12 students. At the latter part of that 18-30 year period I mentioned there would be no young adult university students.

        It is a hypothetical world, but that’s the one I’m responding to. It’s immoral to have kids therefore no person should have a child therefore there should be no children. Am I missing something in my interpretation of that?