That's not the 1st time I see this thinking fallacy.
please talk to your grandparents about the topic and report back to us.
please talk to your grandparents about the topic and report back to us.
But what great insights would they come up with pray tell? In those days (it was WOII) it was to work the land (economy), cannon fodder and pension plan (have them take care of you). What else?
That's what is else, your very existence!
I'm sure you would agree, your life has value and meaning beyond a utilitarian or disposable cog in a wheel.
By extension therefore all lives are equally valuable and necessary.
I think that creating more happy people is better, not more people per se.
It does? Measured by what? That's what I say; I'm a consumer, but beyond that, how am I valuable? How are you?
> By extension all lives are equally valuable and necessary.
You are a vegan? Are plants lives lives?
Also, putting too much pressure on the planet with over population makes it the opposite of valuable.
We are an accidental blib in a cold vast cosmos; nothing and no-one would think of us or remember us if the earth explodes today (or if someone hits the nuke button). I 'value' my life in so far that I am not in pain and I was born in the right location with the right interests (math + computing) to do whatever I want to sit it out until I die.
How is any of it a reason to make more babies though or a sign we have a shortage just because we make less than we need to create a population equilibrium or growth?