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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Irrational? Oh. Perhaps I forgot another reason for having more than 2 kids: contraception failure.
But seriously, why WOULD someone have more than 2 children? Because they LIKE to have a large family? Is that a reasonable and valid, non-selfish reason, given that there are 6.5 billion people on the planet and not enough resources to go around as it is to allow everyone to live with a typical Western standard of living, even if people wanted to ensure equal purchasing power around the globe?
I was editing my last post while you were commenting, so here is part of it that you may have missed, CunningStunt: "Reasons (that having more than 2 kids in developed countries is selfish): they are choosing to do something that consumes more than their share of the world's resources, is not a choice all people could make without causing endless (and impossible) population growth, and contributes to more environmental damage than is fair."
This is true.  |
What's your source for this? The environmental damage part especially sounds fishy. Anyway, even if you halved the population of the USA, do you honestly think its governemnt would pool its left over resources into anything but its dying economy? I wonder if having three kids instead of two is really as damaging as you think. And this argument doesnt make sense if the children are adopted.