Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? and also not use the threads here for ideological battle? These things degrade communication between people and are generally not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's not what I'm saying at all! I'm firstly criticising the use of a particular rhetorical device that I think has become ineffective, and secondly pointing out the inconsistency when those that would advocate all kinds of draconian interventions in our daily lives yet refuse hysterically any contemplation whatsoever of controlling our numbers as a species.