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Birthright

Pun intended. Humans love to procreate. They exist apparently for a singular purpose like any living organism. Just ask the Duchess of Cambridge. Be that as it may we certainly do not like to think of the consequenes. As in how many more people do we need to call it game over? Every city and county and state and country is faced with balancing issues - those involving their budgets and its no surprise that demand has exceeded supply or at least the rate of supply. There is no forever. So while anyone can be selfish in their approach to living large I do not quite get the idea to manufacture more than one in the family. One and done on a global scale (for those that somehow feel compelled to have that one) could bring about a new lease on life so to speak. Such experiments have been attempted on a large scale before (China being a recent example) yet it might be too little too late. Especially in light of increased life spans for the cretins still left on the planet. Clearly like in any macro economy someone with less kids will subsidize the costs of living for someone with more. In the form of public schooling, other public resources including food stamps and shelter and unemployment insurance and medical services. That in itself could be another pointer to privatizing all forms of life sustaining services so that the reality of cost can help people make better decisions.

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  1. RajendraSeptember 26, 2012 at 10:40 PM

    How would you get an African (or Asian or European for that matter) to agree with all this?

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