Lobot
May 21, 2016, 12:04pm
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eschereal the seriously twisted:
From my perspective, we are already overrun with humans (India in particular, with a population density around a thousand per square mile), so anything to ease/reverse population growth is, in my view, preferable to facilitating more breeding.
Anything? So how about we hold a lottery per birth year: those who don’t win get forcibly sterilised. How does that sound?
Lobot
May 21, 2016, 12:15pm
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Let me put it this way: it’s everyone’s responsibility to make sensible reproductive choices, because the decision can impact the individual, the child, the family and society in general. But it is no one’s right to restrict access to reproductive technology based purely on a fallacious, teleological understanding of “mother nature”. That road leads to all sorts of implications, most of which are uncomfortably close to a kind of eugenics.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
I would say that b is not a good idea. From my perspective, we are already overrun with humans (India in particular, with a population density around a thousand per square mile), so anything to ease/reverse population growth is, in my view, preferable to facilitating more breeding.
Overpopulation is a big threat, but it would be better to have a world where most people had 1-2 children than one in which lots of people had either 3 or 0.
Good for the lady in question, I wish her well.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
A 70 year old woman gave birth to her first child after a fifty year long childless marriage. She says she was constantly taunted for her infertility, so at long last she embarked on a lengthy IVF program which resulted in a son, whom she is breast-feeding.
Obviously, going the petri dish route allowed the clinicians to carefully cull the zygotes for a viable candidate. I mean, none of that leave it to the callous bitch that ma nature: at her age, the woman probably had just one shot at this.
But does it make sense to do this? The boy will most likely lose both his parents well before puberty (dad is 79). What kind of childhood will that be?
Really, is even IVF a good thing? If the callous bitch ma nature says you ain’t gonna have babies, who are you to go behind her back? Yeah, it can be a huge disappointment to be infertile, but we always managed to cope in the past.
You have any medical conditions that might kill you without intervention? You ever had a deep cut that kept bleeding, or a serious infection?
If so, do you think that it would have been better that the medical profession had never interfered with the “bitch” and saved you?