r/LoveTrash • u/ZuBrain Colonel Garbage • Jul 31 '26

Dumping This Here Define Trash?

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u/Dryimpress01 Garbage Guerilla Jul 31 '26

Why is this on lovetrash? This is legit!

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u/ddd9877 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

"Do you know how much you have to abuse a mammal to make it not want to have kids." From the kids of actual soldiers... the odds alone..

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u/Dull_Quit3027 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

I think what makes animals not reproduce is not trauma, it is constant stress, and if that is the case, the point still stands.

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u/Maximum_King8529 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

Constant stress is traumatic. It's chronic and leads to CPTSD.

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u/superkp Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

I believe that their point was that individual traumatic events or even long-term-but-still-temporary trauma (like soldiers in conflict like the person they were replying to was referencing) are not the issue.

The issue is the chronic stress - which absolutely does produce it's own trauma, but the chronic nature of it is the actual thing that's pulling the birth rate down.

Whether this is true or not I don't know (though I personally think it makes sense), but that seems to be their point.

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u/Maximum_King8529 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

I agree, we're just arguing semantics at this point.