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> People are quite hard wired to have kids. We're definitely hard wired to have sex, which used to be the same thing, but now there's birth control. Maybe evol
by klipt 4y ago
> People are quite hard wired to have kids.
We're definitely hard wired to have sex, which used to be the same thing, but now there's birth control. Maybe evolution needs a little more time to dial up our cultural or genetic aversion to birth control...
- samus 4y agoWe definitively have subcultures that are violently opposed to birth control.
- rapsey 4y agoAfter a certain age for most there is definitely a desire.
- adrianN 4y agoThe declining birth rates seem to indicate that the desire is not very strong for a lot of people.
- antisthenes 4y agoI'll give you a little hint: 50% of people can't have children on their own.
- adrianN 4y ago0% of the people can have children without a second person.
- mijamo 4y agoWhat is that certain age? I feel there is mostly some kind of social pressure and fear of missing something important in life. If people could safely get kids at any point in life without any influence from age I'm pretty convinced most would do it much much. Right now from my experience maybe do it because they feel "it's now or never" and "never" is scary because you could be missing out on something great.
- abyssin 4y agoFear of missing out can be used to talk about something that closely corresponds to the idea of desire.
- ahartmetz 4y agoIf I was genetically engineering people to have kids, I'd make them want to have kids directly. It's a trait that seems to exist already, and dialing it up should be easier than creating something new. I suspect that it will happen by natural selection in a few generations.
- kbelder 4y agoYeah. Prior to birth control, evolution functioned by strengthening the desire to have sex. Since birth control, the trait being selected for is desire to reproduce, not desire for sex. And I suspect that evolutionary change will happen incredibly quickly; birth control is breeding the desire to procreate into our species (as opposed to the desire for intercourse).