# Leave the birthrate alone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-birthrate-alone/1029286>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 15, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-birthrate-alone/1029286 "2026-04-15T12:30:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-the-birthrate-alone/1029286/20 "2026-04-15T16:27:22Z")

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> **Summary**
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> > [@Velocity](#):
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> > Those things are mutually contradictory. You can’t have that without some sort of mandatory euthanasia program for all elderly folks above, say, age 70, and that’s not happening for obvious moral reasons.
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> Keep in mind that a lot of these people (nationally, not here) are white nationalists who talk about “white genocide” and would _most definitely_ counter the rising birth rate with a very high death rate among “undesirables” if they could.

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