A fetus is not a child, and abortion takes place long before the set of cells form a human embryo.
I did not know who Malthus was, I searched his name in google and found out that he was a sociologist. It is interesting that my views are like that of a famous sociologist.
Regardless of overpopulation or underpopulation, abortion is a human right. We cannot force people to give birth to a child they do not want.
We have a saying that life is like a ship, the man is the sailor and the woman is the captain. As a result, it is clear who is the captain :))
I have no opinion about the war in Ukraine, I will wait to see what will happen. I think abortion is a human right, and of course I don't think abortion helps to eliminate weak genes, quite the opposite, since abortion is common among developed countries, and developed countries have on average a more intelligent population, abortion It causes the deletion of valuable genes.
Yes, we can look at the matter from this angle. In fact, I imagine the worst case scenario and you the best case scenario.
Sounds reasonable :)
In the world, there are always mercenaries to serve dictators. Dictators will pay these mercenaries from your stolen bitcoins. A dictatorship with a money printing machine is a soft dictatorship, and a dictatorship with weapons is a hard dictatorship. If one day the statesmen of the world cannot rule over you with money printing machines, they will do it with weapons. Even now, we can name many dictatorial countries in the world. Democracy is a fragile thing, it crumbles with lack of resources.
It's like I cornered you.đ
because we all know that most African women are malnourished. The reason they give birth to 12 children is not good nutrition.
Bitcoin can make the government's money printing machine useless, but if one day their money printing machine becomes useless, they will take your bitcoins from you at gunpoint. Unfortunately, Bitcoin cannot take us to utopia either.
Yes, if the people of the world accept Bitcoin, it can help to balance the wealth in the world. Of course, there are always powerful people who will take bitcoins from poor people by force. Bitcoin cannot solve the problem of dictatorship in the world.
Well, here we come to the interesting discussion of morality.đ
So, according to you, morality is relative: helping poor people is a moral principle, but if these poor people are Africans, helping them is bad.
Yes, I agree with you on this. The world's resources are unevenly distributed among humans. But this is a natural problem, throughout history, resources have always been unevenly distributed, and there have always been people who have exploited other people. The world has never been a utopia and it will never become a utopia, no matter how good people try to make it better.
Well, we are coming to common opinions.
But right now in African countries, the birth rate is high and the amount of food is low.
So you believe that it is better that the world's population is not controlled, and if a person is born in a poor country to poor parents, his suffering and poverty are his own and not our problem? But I think it is better to control the population of the world so that such people are not born at all and do not spend their whole lives in suffering.
So you agree with the policy of reproductive regulation, but under certain conditions.
The reason is that in the past, the ratio of human population to the resources of the planet was low, but are the resources of the planet unlimited? Earth's resources are enough for how many people? A hundred billion? A trillion?
Well, this is a scientific and mathematical problem:
A: how many resources are there?
B: How much resources does each person consume?
C: How many people are the resources available?
C=A/B
I disagree with one. In third world countries, women may prefer to have boys, but for educated women in first world countries, the gender of the child does not matter. Even in third world countries, there is no difference between male and female children for educated women. I live in a third world country and I can see this truth first hand.
Yes, currently the ratio of population to resources in Europe is unbalanced, but if the number of births in Europe becomes unlimited, will Europe's resources be enough for population growth forever? If the population of Europe increases tenfold or a hundredfold, won't this cause poverty and hunger there? Europe's resources are enough for how much population?
In my opinion, abortion is not murder. We have already discussed this.
In my opinion, this issue cannot be a reason to oppose abortion. With abortion, there will be a lot of girls in the world that men will fight over to marry them. Without abortion, there would be plenty of men and women fighting for food. It is a choice between two bad situations.
But we atheists adhere to human and moral values, at least in this case. We don't do anything like that.