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Posted by JayMan on Sun Feb 26 12:07:08 2012, in response to Re ality gap, posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 25 18:02:56 2012. Bingbong, you were doing so fine with Olog, and now you had to drop this stuff.Women of all persuasions want to control their reproductive lives. True. Very very few want 10+children. Also true, but this is not necessarily a good thing. That is unsustainable economically and physically, as there aren't enough resources on the planet to support such a population. Since when do the reproductive behavior of women in this corner of the world translate to the rest of the world? I'm sure you're aware of the maddeningly low fertility rates of Whites (and by extension, presumably high-IQ individuals of all races), which in Eastern and Southern Europe is critically low. First world nations have more than enough resources to sustain a much higher fecundity. In fact, it is becoming imperative economically for these countries to boost their fertility—a fact we can see playing out in Greece and the rest of the PIIGS nations (save Ireland)—since a major fundamental cause of the problems these countries face is that they are accumulating an overabundance of retirees without young workers to support them. As for the Third World, there is a great biological and economic incentive for couples there to have large families, as the replacement value is much higher there. There, it does make sense for many women to have 10+ children, with the hope that a few well survive to become healthy adults. There very much are still plagues in many of these parts, particularly sub-Saharan African (e.g. AIDS, malaria) and there will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But, you do have one point, as indeed, if we develop vaccines/cures for these diseases without a corresponding scale back in fertility, these folks are in serious trouble (think Rwanda or Sudan). It is perhaps the height of tragedy that the people who go on about harmless specters such as "overpopulation", as you have, are typically both the people who are least contributing to it (as we've seen from global fertility rates) and the people whose progeny benefit society most. This self-culling practiced by the intelligent ultimately puts everyone in the world in a worse spot (since the Third World races depend on the support of intelligent peoples to survive). Think about that the next time you worry about "overpopulation". |
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