RE: Carrying Capacity and Birth Control
I see it as an unconscious attempt to promote discontinuity of human life and disrupt one of the processes that ensure equilibrium in the ecosystem; especially in terms of gene pool flux and genetic diversity.
I doubt that. It's more likely they just don't like children and the loss of material resources as well as autonomy, which usually follows after children arrive.
Another reason can also be, that one just realizes he's too fucked up to ever be able to take care of children properly.
Personally, I don't judge people for having kids - as long as they keep them away from me and teach them how to behave in public. Otherwise I'm always going to be the grumpy guy who tells a child to shut the fuck up, if its parents are not able to do so.
You know what amazes me regularly?
You need to pass a test to drive a car or you are not allowed to do it - but creating a kid (and possibly fuck up a whole life) requires only some genitals.
Seems not very reasonable to me.
That is why I used the word 'unconscious'. They might totally be oblivious to that fact. As an ecologist, I prefer to look at things on a larger scale and sexual reproduction together with accompanying genetic recombination is one of the reasons all of us are alive. If we all have the same mindset. we can as well discontinue life. Perhaps there is a particular gene in you that might save humanity from a particular disease in future but due to your mindset, you refused to pass this gene to the subsequent generation? You have totally erased your gene from the gene pool without you thinking of it.
Why do you say I never thought of it?
Maybe I thought about that, but I just don't care about future generations? I don't feel any responsibility for the people who are alive while I'm dead. Why should I?
In addition to that: it's probably one of the worst reasons to get children at all. In my case it would be like "Look, I don't like you and I don't want you - but since I got told you might be humanities last hope, I'm stuck with you. And now stop whining and finish breakfast."
I would be such a loving father. Not.
@egotheist, you just echoed the sentiments of one my late uncle. He always says he won't be bothered by things that happen after his death :)
A wise man indeed :)
smh.