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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
People have been using contraceptives forever. The denizens of the Roman empire actually drove a certain plant to extinction, because it prevented pregnancies, and they over-picked them. By your logic, none of us today should use contraceptives, because our parents didn't when they created us. And yet we do anyway. It's a massive trend, and it has always been, yet it hasn't "collapsed our population". If anything, there are more people now than ever, and yet more people using easily-available contraceptives then ever as well.
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maybe poor wording or something on my part. i wasn't trying to convey the idea that something like contraception can't stick around. but that a drive to be kid-less and not reproduce (if implemented sucessfully) would effectively end our genetic lineage. the fact that we're still around 2000 years later proves that if one thing has continued all the while since debauched romans decided to slip a goat's entrails on their member, it's reproduction.