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

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101. I don't disagree with that.

I think that's a very astute observation by Harris. Yes, it likely is too late and contrary to what you seem to believe, that doesn't bother me- even though I'm a parent. Not to be nonchalant about that prospect, but species come and species go. I don't see extinction as the most likely of possibilities, but I do think that a population crash could very well occur. I had an anthropology professor once who declared that the best thing that could happen to our species would be if were bombed back into the stone age and started over.

Honestly though, I think the reaction on this thread to your comments flows from your initial thread on it which was, at best, poorly worded- and that's being charitable:

Today any potential parent with a milligram of empathy and compassion will refrain from procreating. Only someone who is completely bound up in their own psychic wounds and egoic needs would even consider bringing a helpless child into the buzz-saw world that's unfolding around us.

You said something silly, offensive and condescending. You assumed, wrongly I believe, that the ensuing reaction was due to your argument about the threat of overpopulation. Once again, correlation does not automatically imply causation.