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If you want kids and don't eventually have them purely for this reason then you'll regret it doubly. The more conscientious people who have kids should at leas
by BLKNSLVR 4y ago
If you want kids and don't eventually have them purely for this reason then you'll regret it doubly.
The more conscientious people who have kids should at least maintain the number of conscientious people in the world (so I believe anyway, potentially romantically incorrectly).
Religions maintain themselves purely through indoctrination prior to coherent thought, why not use that same hack for actual useful ends. (Hah! I'm such an optimist).
- sammalloy 4y agoIdiocracy hypothesis says otherwise. The least educated and intelligent have the most numbers of offspring.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoIn which case 'the conscientious minority' must continue to breed to at least slow the rate of the declining percentage.
- PlasmaOInterest 4y agoAnd, thankfully, geniuses randomly and repeatedly arise amongst them.
- nisegami 4y agoWe can disincentivize it substantially by replacing tax benefits for having kids with tax burdens for having kids, promoting family planning and making contraceptives free and easily accessible as possible, making childbirth and childrearing as expensive as possible, etc.
- NateEag 4y ago> Religions maintain themselves purely through indoctrination prior to coherent thought, why not use that same hack for actual useful ends. (Hah! I'm such an optimist). [Citation needed] I've encountered several examples of people who were raised pure humanist/materialist and became one stripe or another of religious later in life, including - Simone Weil (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil) - my father, raised by an atheist and agnostic, was an aggressive atheist until his college years when he became a deist (he further converted to evangelical Christianity while in medical school). - Bruce Greyson, raised a pure materialist but became vaguely spiritual and inclined towards dualism after decades of studying NDEs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Greyson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Greyson) It may not be common to start off atheist and become theistic, but it does happen.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoMy sister is a born again Christian, so it's not true for her either, but it's definitely true for her kids. Imma keep working on em though ;)