“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor [Mike Huckabee] said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.”
Given (as I and various others believe) that there are too many people around for the earth to support, adding more that are not wanted is a prescription for disaster. Even if there is enough, having children that aren't wanted doesn't strike me as doing anyone -- the children, the parents or society -- any favors.
What mainly strikes me though, is that we should expect a clash of civilizations of some kind, as each group tries to save itself. In that context, having more (unwanted) children makes some kind of sense, because we will "need" the cannon fodder.
I do care about my culture and do want (parts of) it to survive. There are certainly parts I hope we grow out of, but on the whole, I think life for the average person is better today than it has been or is in most places and times and that this is the best hope for a future that is best for people and for the earth. I still shudder at the price we are likely to pay, win or lose.
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