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In reply to the discussion: "Why we should have fewer children: to save the planet" [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)people to maintain replacement population levels.
Which makes zero sense in the context of practical solutions, but I guess it's the kind of thought exercise which gives some people a special feeling of something or other.
As for authoritarianism, I simply default to the baseline philosophical position that individuals are the best suited to make their own decisions about their own lives and bodies. Period. And I don't apologize for that.
I remember walking around the mall in DC in 2004 at the March for Womens Lives; a powerful and HUGE demonstration of the pro-choice majority in this country- and I saw signs that said "who decides?" and "trust women".
See, that's the crux of it. WHO DECIDES how many children people "should" have, if not the people themselves? Trust women. Yes, trust women to decide if they want to carry a pregnancy in their own body to term. Trust individuals to make their OWN life choices for themselves, and there is pretty much no choice more personal than whether to reproduce.
I must admit I never thought I'd see the day when an unapologetically pro-choice position was denigrated here as somehow morally defective, but then I also never thought I'd see self-described "progressives" arguing for things like censorship and anti-blasphemy laws.
Strange.