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Sarcasm aside, are you advocating a one child policy and very high car taxes (like Singapore)? This thread has just degenerated to “world has many problem, let

• gumby 9y ago
  I'm certainly not advocating a one child policy!! I haven't really thought much about high car taxes; I tend to think car ownership will go away once they drive themselves, though I don't know about the pollution impact. My point was that people make choices, and the ultimate end result of economic activity should be the satisfaction of people, not other goals, and that the particular ones that happen to drive person X wild (or that they want to higlight for the purposes of virtue signalling) simply reflect personal choices as well. I have my own bugbears in this regard, though they happen to be different from the GP poster's. I actually do have an opinion on childbearing. I am a parent and enjoyed it tremendously but by hanging around with other parents there are many, perhaps a majority, who seem like they would have been happier having fewer, or even none. Certainly that is the case of one of my parents. It's great to have a child because you want one, sad to do it because you think you ought to. But I don't think that should be a policy issue; if there's any policy issue in there it's haveing an educational system that encourages people to make decisions that will make them happy. Hmm, good luck with that.