I know this is not the most opportune moment to raise such a question, considering the circumstances, but I can't puzzling over it: if you are an adult living in Gaza, you know it's shyte where you live--biggest open-air prison, etc., etc. Regardless of whom you blame for this (and whom it would be correct to blame for this), why would you choose to procreate and bring new lives into this misery? Is the instinct to spawn really that strong in normal (i.e. not me) humans?
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Hold up, Rhamnousia will be here in a sec.
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Accidents happen chap
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But on a serious note PP, one can argue that the fundamental purpose of life is to procreate. And it becomes even more urgent to continue to do so when ethnic cleansing is being committed against your people.
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Yes, the urge to procreate is that strong but also it has come to be viewed as an act of rebellion. A lot of people in Gaza understandably think Israel is trying to wipe them out. Creating more Palestinians is one way to ‘fight back’. Plus the ‘economic incentives’ are odd.
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I am curious to know the relative birth rates of Jewish people in israel and Palestinians
Any ideas?
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ofc it is strong
how do you think we survived this far? through war and famine and disease and OPEN SEWERS
imagine living with a stream of shyt all around you and doing anything besides lying down and waiting to die
humans are mental
not us, pp
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also tbf in Gaza it probably serves well to have a big gang of lads with a Kray-like devotion to protecting your interests
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men want to shag, women probably don't have the means to stop getting pregnant (or stop getting shagged)
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yeah that is a big part of it, no doubt
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and from there you have the kind of horror of familial obligation without choice and the myth that it is a joy and a blessing is the only way for people to cope psychologically
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Most of the highest birth rate locations on earth are the places most people would least want to live. Shagging is free though.
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According to the Wikipedia article on the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, part of the rationale for the 2005 withdrawal was that Israel was worried that the greater birth rate in Gaza would leave them with an area that wasn't Jewish majority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza#Rationale_and_development_of_the_policy
In answer to Davos' question, I can' remember if it was in that article or elsewhere that it said the population of Gaza had increase from about 500,000 to approx 2 million in the space of about 30 years (the figures and time period might be slightly off but the jist of it was it had roughly quadrupled in a comparatively short time frame)
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