>>6092659Okay, so your argument is that "we" have a duty to reproduce because it would help "us" dominate the world. Even if I accept your premise that it would benefit me and mine if "we" dominated other nations, and your assumption that that is a moral or right thing to do, even then this argument is dumb. Raw numbers alone are pretty irrelevant when it comes to geopolitical influence, otherwise
>The Romans considered this a fundamental cornerstone of their culture, and, given the success of their society, that's nothing to be ignored.The Romans lived in a virtually empty world compared to today's industrial civilization. Like I said, culture is a societal adaptation to a certain set of conditions, and for the conditions the Romans found themselves in, making as many babies as possible made sense. For us today, that is not the case. While the Romans had vast stretches of sparsely-inhabited land that they could colonize with their high birthrates, our global civilization today is facing the ever-increasing strain of ecological collapse from overconsumption of resources. Shitting out fifty kids in today's world, each of whom will consume a vast amount of our already dwindling resources, should not be thought of as a cultural duty. My whole point is that shaming people for not having kids is idiotic when they can contribute to the culture in other ways.
And this goes for both the global north and global south. So please shut the fuck up with these bizarre accusations.
>Also, your charade of being the intellectual who studies science, and sociology, and who would never make a strawman argumentAgain I never said any of these. I'm just saying that you've done nothing but put words in my mouth this entire time, dipshit.
>about how everyone who disagrees with you is a brainwashed /pol/ user.Not everyone who disagrees with me, I would welcome anyone who addresses my point and makes a thoughtful reply even if they disagree. Just the three who replied to my post.
