> birth control would be completely unacceptable since you could lose an immense number of future people Operative word = "could" Or lack of birth control cou

> birth control would be completely unacceptable since you could lose an immense number of future people Operative word = "could" Or lack of birth control could lead to an unsustainable level of population that causes resource exhaustion and we die that way. Oh, wait, that's already happening. We can't know how our actions effect the far future, but we can be more confident in our ability to improve the near future, and we should do that.