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retzkek
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In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants a...
What if you could ask an octopus the same, and it suggested that dying after breeding is best for society to prevent the problems of overpopulation [1]? Unlike your hypothetical aliens, octopodes live in the same resource-constrained world we do.
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Lifespan
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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Lifespan