I think it's fine if people care about overpopulation and the environment and, because of that, refrain from having many kids.
I don't expect people to neglect their own happiness for the sake of the environment. Humans are programmed to want to have kids, and it isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do to find some interest that gives your life meaning.
It seems, you are coming from a place where it seems easy to just choose not to have kids and find something else to do, and I think that requires some affluence.
How about poor people who do not have access to birth control and abortion clinics? Perhaps, many are not even aware of how overpopulated the world is.
I think it requires some level of prosperity for someone to care so much about the environment. It means you have the surplus energy to do so. If it seemed that your sole means of survival were to work in some job in an environmentally unfriendly industry, and one of your few joys was the thought that your kids might grow up to have a better life, you might think otherwise.
In my opinion, you are making the mistake of thinking that the thing you find important, is objectively important and therefore should be important to everyone else.
Why not just say that humans are finally able to use up all the resources the planet has to offer, and as a species live like there is no tomorrow? We, who are here now, are not going to live forever anyway, so why not just seize the day?
I'm not saying people should do that, I like the idea of treating the environment well. I'm saying that caring for the nature and the environment is not objectively good.
Regarding eugenics, the problem is that you make ideas about the future of the human species more important than the people who are here now.
I especially like your fourth paragraph about how prosperity affects a person's priorities. And the fifth too - I tried to make a similar point earlier, but I think it may have been too cheeky.
IIN that the majority of people don't care about overpopulation?
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I think it's fine if people care about overpopulation and the environment and, because of that, refrain from having many kids.
I don't expect people to neglect their own happiness for the sake of the environment. Humans are programmed to want to have kids, and it isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do to find some interest that gives your life meaning.
It seems, you are coming from a place where it seems easy to just choose not to have kids and find something else to do, and I think that requires some affluence.
How about poor people who do not have access to birth control and abortion clinics? Perhaps, many are not even aware of how overpopulated the world is.
I think it requires some level of prosperity for someone to care so much about the environment. It means you have the surplus energy to do so. If it seemed that your sole means of survival were to work in some job in an environmentally unfriendly industry, and one of your few joys was the thought that your kids might grow up to have a better life, you might think otherwise.
In my opinion, you are making the mistake of thinking that the thing you find important, is objectively important and therefore should be important to everyone else.
Why not just say that humans are finally able to use up all the resources the planet has to offer, and as a species live like there is no tomorrow? We, who are here now, are not going to live forever anyway, so why not just seize the day?
I'm not saying people should do that, I like the idea of treating the environment well. I'm saying that caring for the nature and the environment is not objectively good.
Regarding eugenics, the problem is that you make ideas about the future of the human species more important than the people who are here now.
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Wow, this is such a fantastic answer, all of it.
I especially like your fourth paragraph about how prosperity affects a person's priorities. And the fifth too - I tried to make a similar point earlier, but I think it may have been too cheeky.