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I do not see how falling sperm counts would be a problem. We spend a lot more time trying not to make babies than we spend worrying that we can not make enough
by RecycledEle 2y ago
I do not see how falling sperm counts would be a problem.
We spend a lot more time trying not to make babies than we spend worrying that we can not make enough babies.
The married couples who want children could keep trying for a few years. Given today's small families, I don't think waiting would cause much of a problem.
If sperm counts do drop to the point some men are sterile, wouldn't that be cured by natural selection where only the fertile men breed?
- manmal 2y agoFemales with early menopause die earlier, I‘d not be so sure that involuntary sterility is automatically harmless.
- Nasrudith 2y agoIf it is environmental in cause not really. Sterility with an outside cause isn't selected for any more than the Somme was capable of selecting for men who are immune to bullets, artillery shells, and bayonets.
- zug_zug 2y agoIt'd be nice if it was that easy. One thing to think about is that I think the scientific understanding is that unhealthy sperm = unhealthy babies. That's the reason sperm have to undergo such a long and grueling race, as a selection process to reduce the odds an inferior spermazoa can impregnate the egg.
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoDon't they carry the same DNA?
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- _aavaa_ 2y agoNo. But even if they did, having the same DNA isn't enough to have the same impact. See for example prions; same protein, but a different configuration results in a wildly different result.
- paulddraper 2y agoThis view -- to put it bluntly -- is ignorant. Sometimes people want small families, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes low sperm count means waiting a few years, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes couples have a few years of fertility window, and sometimes they don't. And this is ignoring any other possible health issues for which infertility is only one symptom.