Are Babies for Idiots? Maternal Urge Decreases in Women with Higher IQ

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66. I tend to have a fairly accepting attitude towards most human behavior.

People can't really control what we think or do (regardless that we believe this to be the case) so it doesn't make much sense to get upset about it.

What I was doing here amounted to floating a trial marketing balloon for the population-reduction folks. Anyone who seriously wants to try and reduce population growth to negative faces almost insurmountable odds. Human nature, evolutionary pressures and the nature of life itself all erect formidable barriers against voluntary, severe restrictions in fertility when enough resources are still available to support growth. The reaction to my few words here is yet more evidence of that.

You may rationalize your reaction as me being somehow "factually wrong", but the strength of the reactions tells me that the core objection is purely emotional. My statements violate core beliefs about the value of human life. As a result no derogatory assumptions about my character, motives or IQ feel too extreme.

My position stands - if we want people to reduce world population pressures by reducing their own fertility, we must help them feel that having kids is a bad idea. Appeals to altruism and education don't do it.