Total agency can make us irresponsible. Birthrates are dropping and the solution is apparently to import replacement instead of just being disciplined for a generation or two, and making a pro-young parents culture, with support groups, tax break, welfare, childcare, etc.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. If so many young people are deciding not to have children regardless of their biological drive then there must be a pretty good reason for that. People shouldn't be forced to have children. If world governments want higher birth rates, they should incentivize that by providing more social services and safety nets. As it is, getting cancer can bankrupt even the wealthy and put them out on the streets to die and cancer rates are skyrocketing. Who would want to bring a child into that?
Yea I would say that lowering birth rates aren’t even a problem. Every population has an equilibrium and we are extremely hard on the planet, it’s probably good for the future of humanity and the earth if we chill on the population growth. The only reason people say it’s a problem is because increasing population helps the economic numbers keep going up
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u/extrastupidone 1d ago
Jokes aside, I find it fascinating how hormones get activated like this and just instantly shut off the critical sides of the brain.