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This vid explains the situation better than I can (it's about South Korea but Japan is basically in the same boat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk
From a higher abstraction vantage point, you are not wrong, but you are basically advocating for entire countries to disappear
If the entire country wants to enact policies and cultures that would lead to their disappearance then who are we to tell them otherwise?
rational people?
But you are being disingenuous here... it's not the entirety of Japan, same as the entirety of Murica did not choose to swim in the sewer with MAGA... yet they are forced to by a loud minority and a push over majority
I think we should at least warn them; perhaps they don't have enough information to connect that outcome to their currently preferred policies. I.e. they don't actually "want to enact policies and cultures that would lead to their disappearance". Preventing persons from unintentionally harming themselves seems like a good thing.
Preventing persons from harming others (unintentionally or not) seems like a moral imperative. And, I think there are probably SK citizens that don't consent to the current policies that will be harmed.
But, at the end of the day, I don't have any action items. I see it mostly as a cautionary tale to drive my own policy preferences.
Welcome to the era of Misinformation
Why do you think we are here? getting people to vote against their own benefit is how we get Billionaires and eventually devolve into fascism before we step into another WW
Yeah, the hostile information environment is ... tough. But, until we figure out how to navigate it, we won't have a truly global society, and I'm not sure that separate, non-hostile communities/associations/syndicates are a stable configuration.
Critical thinking skills are part of that, but exercising them as a defense in that environment is not something you can sustain indefinitely. Everyone needs time to rest and everyone is going to make mistakes.
In biology, a species is considered threatened if there's fewer than 200 individuals of that species around.
Here's your short reminder that south korea has 52 million people, so even if people almost stop having children for a generation or two and the population stabilizes at 5 million people, which is 1/10 of what it currently is, it's still very far away from extinction.
ugh... watch the video and then come back once you ditch the pedantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk
if a country of 52 is reduced to 5, they would literally roll back to per-industrial living