AnimusCorpus t1_jddp8az wrote on March 23, 2023 at 5:32 PM

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This is literal malthusianism. Disgusting.

GetlostMaps t1_jddugva wrote on March 23, 2023 at 6:05 PM

That's not how I read Malthus at all. Nothing about religious stupidity in it. He was super-religious himself and literally a priest or something. Maybe you need to expand your library so you have more suitable adjectives.

AnimusCorpus t1_jddvint wrote on March 23, 2023 at 6:12 PM

"Thinning the herd of dumb people" is literally something he advocated for.

Malthus inspired eugenic programmes.

GetlostMaps t1_jddwhzi wrote on March 23, 2023 at 6:18 PM

No he did not. Sounds like you read a one paragraph summary and not the source material. Open a book. He was more about moral restraint and not having children until you could afford them, with nothing about people killing themselves by being stupid. The guy was probably a racist, was against birth control, and certainly didn't foresee mechanized farming, but there are small nuggets of gold in his shit, and you not even reading it to critically assess it to find them, then making up things he didn't say does you no favors. He was way off base on a lot of things, probably bigoted, oversimplistic and unrealistic, but not everything he said was ridiculous, and he didn't say what you're ascribing to him at all. The 3rd grade poster assignment you got your information from was inadequate. Do some more reading.

Jesus inspired numerous genocides. You don't seem to understand your own point.