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

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77. ack. you are wrong.

my reaction has little to do with what my perception of the value of human life, en masse, is.

Yes, a sharp reduction is reproduction is probably the best chance that the human species has to avoid extinction. But extinction happens.

I don't need to rationalize anything: Scientific arguments without supporting evidence are an obvious failure. It's a tad on the ironic side that you're insisting that I'm the one arguing from an emotional place considering that you're arguing without facts or evidence..

I haven't made any derogatory assumptions about your character or motives- just about your argument. You, on the other hand, directly attack me with your accusation that I'm arguing from an emotional perspective and that I'm attacking your character, when I've done no such thing.


Regarding your last paragraph, if appeals to altruism and eduction are doomed to fail when it comes to getting people to stop having children, how do you suggest that helping "them feel that having kids is a bad idea", be implemented?

Procreation, as you admit, is a biological imperative. I'd argue that it's one that's doing us far more harm than good, but that doesn't make much difference.


Lastly, emotion does come into play in how my argument is presented. I wouldn't dispute that, but it has more to do with my admitted lack of patience with faulty logic than any attachment I place on the survival of the species.