Reply #17: It's a question of balance and adjustment [View All]

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The human species has done a hideous job of adjustment.

When we and our religions were young, it was imperative to have many children and secure our frontiers. Now that we're destroying the environment to a ghastly degree, we need to adjust.

Sadly, the need for cultures to fight a numbers game and outbreed others will sink us in a noxious swamp of human debris.

Yes, one would have to be an imbecile to not see that denser populations will yield more deaths, but the real effects on our biosphere need to be addressed. We're destroying species that have important interactions with others; it's all far too complex, and we're going pay for it someday.

Having more than two or three children is an act of environmental terrorism, regardless of the ego issues or the need to conquer the world for one's supernatural fantasy. Having problems with this is sociopathy.

Those who think they understand the interrelationship of the biosphere to such a degree that they grant themselves the right to run around like a bull in a china shop are simply wrong. This is not subjective, this is proveable fact.

The key is adjustment.