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To be fair, having kids for some is an important part of their loves and how you raise kids, the societies you encourage them to be a part of and the ideas you expose them to are a function of your own exposure and creativity. Most don't know they are being lied to constantly. Some wouldn't care even if they did. But many are questioning things and bringing up kids differently. Look at the increase in home schooling over the past 20 years! And at the extremes, look to the Amish for how distinct a culture can be while co-existing with sheeple culture.

Re overpopulation - I refer you to a lecture by Hans Rosling which elegantly explains what cause the population explosion from 2.5B to 8B and where this might go. TL:DR - pop explosion was a function of global industrialization improving life conditions at a time when people needed 6+ kids to have 2 survive to adulthood and will likely stabilize somewhere around 11b. We can discuss later if we can carry this or not. Here's the lecture if interested: https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI

Not my name 2y ago

Hey thank you for the link!

I’m always interested in incorporating new perspectives into my thinking and will definitely check it out.

My personal feelings on the matter of over-population is that a global population of approximately 50 million would be pretty ideal.

If we reduced the population by 50% with each generation by only having one child per couple, that would get us there in about 5-6 generations without too much difficulty.

Personally I plan on never having kids because I’ve seen it go wrong far too many times to maintain any naïveté about the actual risks involved.

As an example, pronouncing six teenagers dead after a roll over accident into a swamp and shallow drowning in mud would be enough to change some minds I think, but doing so day in and day out just makes you see the world differently I guess.

All those teenagers had great, kind, capable, and very well intentioned parents btw.

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