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[–]blowininthewind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

if you really dig into demographics and birth rates, lgbt population is not the reason for low birth rate, ever. it's really the cost to raise the offspring and give the offspring a good life that curb the birth rate for the middle class for the last couple of decades, and this trend is growing across the world. take china, who just opened their second-child policy. in the first year, they had a little over a million new babies due to this policy, iirc, but not more than 2 million. because the cost of sending a kid to a good college is too high in the targeted middle-class population. the pride flag is always something more political, if you are willing to look and think. but really, take the example of alan turing, who's gay, invented the first computer and named it after his crush (boy) in high school and managed to save 2 million people (see wiki). one must be careful to say lgbt is the true cause of a decreasing population.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This couldn't be further from the truth. The wealthier a nation gets the more the birthrate drops. It is literally the opposite of what you claim. There are no studies, as far as I know, that measure the effects of homosexuality on birthrates. It would be a silly study given how small that community is. The question is would those gay people go on to live a hetero lifestyle and produce kids, and if they do are they displacing hetero people who go on to die childless. Logically homosexuality should lower birthrates, but the data is just not there.

[–]blowininthewind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the wealthier a nation gets the more birthrate drops. i do agree with that. look at western europe and japan and their r values (especially japan, it's like 1.1 or something, one needs that to be approx. 2 to sustain a population). china's talking about whether it'd become the second japan demographically (or in other ways). and i don't think hetero people are ever going to be replaced by homosexual people and die childless. if that is the case then one gotta ask why those gay people go against their will to marry people opposite of their gender. and also heterosexual dudes should man up and show those girls that you are going to love them like gay man never could and provide them a good life to raise great man for the next generation. people can tell if you really do love them and really do want to have sex with them. they're gonna choose you if you really want them bad enough.