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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The overbreeding of dogs has, for instance, produced breeds that struggle to breathe or routinely need C-sections to give birth. If these people love dogs, then it is with a selfish and consumerist sort of love.

That's a problem with people who buy purebred animals. I really don't understand how an animal lover doesn't just get all their animals free or mostly free from the massive pool of unwanted animals.

Maybe they adopt a purebred dog and that's acceptable, but to propagate these lineages with breeders should be unthinkable for most people who actually give a damn about animals.

Working dogs are an exception to this, but not regular pets.

Pets may be valuable companions to the lonely and childless, but it is perverse to make this palliative measure into a preference, deliberately rejecting children in favor of a pampered pet.

We've spent decades discouraging teen pregnancies and promiscuity. Those people stop being teens but the message is still there.

Also children are expensive and the average person isn't as well off as they once were.

I don't think the blame is on people for doing exactly what they were led to do. This was a lack of foresight from leaders. This was considered a good thing right up until the birth rate got too low.

[–]rubberbiscuit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We have plenty of people and the birth rate will take care of itself at some point in time. We could have 10% of the world's population and we would still have plenty of people.

The problem is that the modern ECONOMIC system is really nothing more than a Ponzi scheme that requires on ever increasing pool of new entrants to support the previous generation. That's the only real reason birth rates are any concern. We need those workers paying taxes especially in America and Europe. Thus importing 3rd worlders which seemed like a good idea until we found out the 3rd worlders in too many cases are kind of turds.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a good point.