On Car Seats as Contraception
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On Car Seats as Contraception
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#3This is about child safety seats; not the big bench seats that cars used to have where one could more easily arrange the act of conception, than one can in modern cars with bucket seats, consoles, and etc. You could get farther in the back seat of a '72 Cuda than you could on a minivan bench seat.
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Stop making something as wonderful as children into an -ist. While you may be correct that we have too many people, calling humans who want to or do reproduce--we are not unique in our biological needs to do just that--"natalists" is just a short hop to demonization or worse. Or have you already made that hop, perhaps?
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There aren't too many people in America.
How about we focus on fixing the services we have for those already here
You're going to have a hard time fixing anything at all when your population pyramid is inverted. For long term stability you need to have one child per adult. The US currently produces 0.85 children per adult. Innovation dies when all the young peoples' work is going to support a massive geriatric population that only consume.
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I disagree that there are too many people. Have you read much about the Malthus/George debates? Malthus has now been wrong for 200 years (and counting).
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I disagree that there are too many people. Have you read much about the Malthus/George debates? Malthus has now been wrong for 200 years (and counting).
There are whales full of plastic and the rain isn't safe to drink. How can adding more humans help??
Because the humans that are currently existing aren't helping doesn't mean that one that might come along later doesn't have that "Eureka!" moment.
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I disagree that there are too many people. Have you read much about the Malthus/George debates? Malthus has now been wrong for 200 years (and counting).
There are whales full of plastic and the rain isn't safe to drink. How can adding more humans help??
Reminds me of the George Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E
Humor aside, it's a depressing worldview to me that each marginal human is a net negative. I take the opposite view, that each human is a net positive - and we need all the brainpower we can get to solve all of our problems.
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There aren't too many people in America. How about we focus on fixing the services we have for those already here You're going to have a hard time fixing anything at all when your population pyramid is inverted. For long term stability you need to have one child per adult. The US currently produces 0.85 children per adult. Innovation dies when all the young peoples' work is going to support a massive geriatric popula…
Climate change is the #2 reason I'm not having kids; I think it's unethical to bring children into a world doomed to war & famine. (The #1 reason is that I don't like being around children.) If you want folks to have more kids, you need to address the reasons they're not having them. As the OP of this thread and myself indicate, environmental concerns are a big reason.