This thread addresses overpopulation, a fraught but important issue that attracts disruption and rule violations. In light of this we have lower tolerance for the following offenses:

• Racism and other forms of essentialism targeted at particular identity groups people are born into.

• Bad faith attacks insisting that to notice and name overpopulation of the human enterprise generally is inherently racist or fascist.

• Instructing other users to harm themselves. We have reached consensus that a permaban for the first offense is an appropriate response to this, as mentioned in the sidebar.

This is an abbreviated summary of the mod team's statement on overpopulation, view the full statement available in the wiki.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Nastyfaction:

"Musk has denied offering sperm to strangers over supper. But it would be in keeping with his creepy breeding fetish: Musk is desperate for people in developed countries to have more children and has himself fathered at least 12 children with three women. (One of the children has since sadly died.) He’s become one of the most famous faces of a growing pro-natalist movement – one with an unsettling overlap with eugenics and deeply misogynistic ideas."

With the incoming clown show, the USA will probably see growing shifts towards pro-natalist policies despite the reduction of safety nets and the growing burden on the lower classes in the face of climate change. Moreover, a growth in the number of unwanted children being born without measures to care for them will increase human suffering down the line.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1gvft1y/he_has_already_fathered_many_children_now_musk/ly1i889/