The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT)

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I mean, they sound pretty extremist but they don't really do anything interesting or lolcowish that I've seen. I've been aware of them for years, and in a lot of ways I agree with them, but they aren't really out there, I haven't seen them trolling around or doing anything noteworthy. It's mostly people being shocked that it's even a thing. People were questioning AVFM when the founder and social media rep were both huge lolcows blatantly scamming people and bragging about it, what has this group done?
And lol, of course the founder lives in portland
 
Mechanism Eight said:
I guess that no matter how shitty an idea really is and how shitty it sounds, it'll still somehow accumulate a following.
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It's more like, these people already didn't want to have families to begin with. Then along comes this guy who praises them as noble heroes for their lack of offspring, and they embrace his ideology because it makes them into martyrs. Some people just don't have a hint of maternal or paternal feelings in them, as all people are different. It's not something to be applauded or demonized, it's just human diversity. It's incredibly retarded to pretend this sort of things makes you a hero who's saving planet earth.

If anything, they inspire me to have even more awesome Satan babbies. Because fuck these smug bastards.
 
Satan said:
It's more like, these people already didn't want to have families to begin with. Then along comes this guy who praises them as noble heroes for their lack of offspring, and they embrace his ideology because it makes them into martyrs. Some people just don't have a hint of maternal or paternal feelings in them, as all people are different. It's not something to be applauded or demonized, it's just human diversity. It's incredibly retarded to pretend this sort of things makes you a hero who's saving planet earth.

If anything, they inspire me to have even more awesome Satan babbies. Because fuck these smug bastards.
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Name your next kid after me?
 
Saney said:
Name your next kid after me?
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Seconded. If it's a boy, name him "Saney." If it's a girl, name her "Slayer of the Love-Shys."

I can understand the label "childfree," since it's meant to be an alternative to "childless." The "less" bit implies a lack of something desired, which doesn't apply to the childfree. But I don't understand the motives for these yokels. I mean, they want humanity to go extinct, why? Because we "harm other living things" or something? In that case, how do they justify eating? Consumption of pretty much any food involves killing another part of "Mother Earth," whether animal or vegetable.
 
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Anyone remember the Shakers, also known as the Shaking Quakers? Not many of us do. They're almost solely remembered for their high-quality furniture. They also believed in total sexual abstinence. How did they get new members? Straight-up recruitment and adoption of orphans. What happened to them? Died off with nobody to carry the mantle.

VHEMT is only different because they wrap themselves with a veneer of science instead of piety, which is, unsurprisingly, how extremist beliefs have to function nowadays in order to get the masses to swallow them. VHEMT will go the same way, taking those impressionable enough to believe in it along with them.
 
I can bet 2 cookies that it's the kind of people that laugh when somebody die and waste his time saying "all humankind is evoool" but use all the benefits of a modern civilization like pcs and smartphones and go to the doctor everytime they're sick.
 
There's some irony in the fact that the 'Voluntary Human Extinction Movement' has 1,000,000 members, dwarfing the paltry numbers of the 'One Million Moms' group, the same ignorant group of housewives who vowed to not shop at Macy's for using Ellen Degeneres in an ad, as well as a pretty sad letter writing campaign to Marvel after Northstar married his boyfriend in an issue of X-men. This particular group is funny because they seem like a group of Christians called the Cathars, who were butchered by the Catholics. The Cathars believed that the god in the Old Testament was Satan, and that he ruled the earth. That being the case, having children was a sin, which certainly didn't help their numbers when the holy extermination wars came rollin' in.
 
Pinball Lizard said:
You know, I'll be the first to admit I'm an X. I believe X is one of the most important issues facing the world today. However, I'm not blind to the fact that my own side has its share of lolcows. You've got X types like X, who believes X.
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Pinball Lizard said:
And who could forget our own beloved horrorcow Pentti Linkola, an apologist for every genocide that's ever been genocided, including the Holocaust, in the name of reducing population.
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Linkola is one of my faves ever, mostly because he's one of the few Finnish crazies ever to have gotten giant wide-spread international attention. It's always fascinating; I've read some of the stuff he's written, and it's always one of those things where I vaguely end up agreeing with him, up until the moment I have to say in the very end, "well, dude, despite of your good intentions I'd say you're going just a fucking tad bit too far". The guy should stick to fishing in the backwaters. We have plenty of great backwaters in this country.
 
Loke said:
There's some irony in the fact that the 'Voluntary Human Extinction Movement' has 1,000,000 members, dwarfing the paltry numbers of the 'One Million Moms' group, the same ignorant group of housewives who vowed to not shop at Macy's for using Ellen Degeneres in an ad, as well as a pretty sad letter writing campaign to Marvel after Northstar married his boyfriend in an issue of X-men. This particular group is funny because they seem like a group of Christians called the Cathars, who were butchered by the Catholics. The Cathars believed that the god in the Old Testament was Satan, and that he ruled the earth. That being the case, having children was a sin, which certainly didn't help their numbers when the holy extermination wars came rollin' in.
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I like how people like to think a million is some huge number. One million is less than .3 percent of the US population alone. Hardly world changing numbers.
 
blackie toy said:
Anyone remember the Shakers, also known as the Shaking Quakers? Not many of us do. They're almost solely remembered for their high-quality furniture. They also believed in total sexual abstinence. How did they get new members? Straight-up recruitment and adoption of orphans. What happened to them? Died off with nobody to carry the mantle.

VHEMT is only different because they wrap themselves with a veneer of science instead of piety, which is, unsurprisingly, how extremist beliefs have to function nowadays in order to get the masses to swallow them. VHEMT will go the same way, taking those impressionable enough to believe in it along with them.
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A difference is the Shakers were quite sincere in their beliefs and lived up to them (or left).

Most of the vocal exterminationists are like Anton LaVey, basically public trolls who are more interested in saying extreme things to get attention than actually having a coherent philosophy. I doubt most of them could formulate a coherent argument to support their positions from fundamental principles.
 
I remember looking this up while I was browsing through articles involving doomsday events and extinction on Wikipedia long ago. I pretty much shrugged it off as nothing special and moved on.
 
Pinball Lizard said:
they just want everyone to stop having sex. Everyone. Forever.
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It blows my mind how anyone could feel human beings are a net negative. Or how Humans could realistically become extinct in a reasonable time period.

Somehow I doubt many of these people actually practice their non-sex creed. I bet many of them are basically "incels" trying to give life some purpose.
 
Da Big Staw said:
Somehow I doubt many of these people actually practice their non-sex creed. I bet many of them are basically "incels" trying to give life some purpose.
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Their issue is not sex, as it was with the Shakers, but reproduction.
 
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