dhasenan comments on A defense of Senexism (Deathism) - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 16 February 2014 07:47PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2014 07:51:07PM 0 points [-]

If you have children who in turn plan on having children, then you might be inclined to die eventually in order to secure more resources for your progeny. Similarly if you have close friends with children.

Of course, I'd prefer to incentivize having fewer children and make it harder to have children as a means to control population. If death were necessary, I'd recommend a lottery (assuming there are insufficient volunteers).