Posted on 03/01/2024 12:01:08 PM PST by impimp
Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Lex Friedman, posed the question - if there are substantially more people in North Korea versus South Korea in 100 years, then which country is better? This question was posed based on the context that South Koreans have a low birth rate.
IMHO that alone makes it better to be a South Korean. LOL
Based on what?
read Tucker Carlson’s comments in the original post…a nation that chooses to die is not a good nation…South Korea has chosen death due to a rot in its culture that is beyond the cultural rot seen anywhere else on this planet.
You seem, based on your comments, to prefer comfort to genetic survival.
In North Korea, if one member of our family displeases the government, the whole family suffers. Doesn’t bode well for “genetic survival”.
our = your
The average South Korean woman has 0.7 kids, when 2.1 is needed to sustain a population…this doesn’t bode well for survival.
Under-five mortality rate in South and North Korea 2011-2021
Published by L. Yoon, Dec 13, 2023
In 2021, the mortality rate of children under five years old in South Korea amounted to three per one thousand live births. The under-five mortality rate in North Korea was 17 per one thousand live births in 2020. Although the under-five mortality rate in North Korea has declined in recent years, it is still much higher compared to South Korea.
Starvation and prison camps is better than life in Seoul?
I see several comments on this thread, including yours, that show people blinded by shiny objects as opposed to focusing on more important things.
yes
And what is the most important thing? the birth rate?
Any judgments that any of us make about any subject ,depend on the criteria we use to make such judgments.
It sounds like your main criterion for criticism of South Korea is the low birth rate. Clearly others use different criteria to evaluate whether they would rather be in North Korea or South Korea, given a choice.
Any societal structure that leads to a 0.7 TFR, no matter how many comforts it has, is a rot. I am asking my FRiends to think if comforts are more important that genetic survival. No matter how superficially benign South Korea appears it has fundamentally rejected God’s commandment to go forth and multiply. And it has fundamentally rejected Darwin and the survival of the fittest.
South Korea is to countries what porn is to families. This analogy is unfortunately very valid.
“Better” is always subjective, no matter the topic.
There could be 100X the people in North Korea...but I bet most of THEM would rather be in the south.
A totalitarian communist regime is the epitome of rot. The mine fields and barbed wire fences kind of hinders God’s commandment to go forth...
But you can have at it impimp. Just think how much you will save on electricity for your vast brood. Just don’t let the Ministry of State Security catch you squireling away any extra eggs.
Come to think of it, isn’t the Kim family their god? Have fun worshiping fat boy Jong Un.
Food shortages in NorKor.
Modern technology, affluence and freedom make for problems, but life without them is worse.
I wouldn’t want to give them up.
As an American what do I care for either Korea? What is my point?
We in the west have succumbed to many mind viruses including but not limited to climate change, reproductive choice and reproductive health care, DEI, subsidized female education, etc. The cumulative effect of these is to make us like South Korea…we are nominally Christian but in reality we are turning some combination of hedonistic and nihilistic.
This thread is a warning…not all mind viruses are on the left and if we don’t watch out we will be victims of the same demographic winter gripping South Korea.
Sometimes an existential threat like food shortages focuses the mind.
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