Galloism wrote:GuessTheAltAccount wrote:Bah, Japan's mistake is being too stubborn to let in enough immigrants to replace the kids they aren't having. The rest of the developed world is more open to migration, with the exception of a few especially stubborn holdouts within it who whine about immigrants taking their jobs. (Every time I catch myself pitying them, I remind myself how little pity they had for those who lost their jobs for other reasons.)
These "pro-natalist" types spent the 00s telling antinatalists to kill themselves, as if seeing humanity as a whole as bad for the environment required seeing themselves; as people who might offset their carbon footprint with activism that reduces everyone else's; the same way. Or as if they saw it as just as bad to end someone's life as to not start it in the first place. Only now that Arabs are at the gates of Europe are these people admitting they never really wanted immigration in the first place. Too bad, so sad, tell them to stick to their real reasoning for their beliefs next time.
As for the prefrontal cortex... why is that, of all things, the only thing that counts? There are so many changes between actual!childhood and being 25 that it seems odd to single out one specific aspect of biology as the most meaningful.
But yeah, this middle ground we've picked now conforms neither to the prefrontal cortex standard nor the norms throughout history. Nor does it conform to how we treat Arab teenagers, Hispanic teenagers, or black teenagers, to this day.
I'm leaving most of this post aside because it doesn't matter, but as to why the prefrontal cortex matters, it's the structure of the brain responsible for long term decision making and long term consequence recognition.
It's one of the reasons that the army loves 18 year olds. You can send them straight into hell and they'll have few doubts or considerations about the fact they could get killed or injured for the rest of their lives until later when the prefrontal cortex develops.
One could argue that the best parts of world history literally runs on poor decision-making.
