jeff smith wrote:
no , having a baby is the result of having unprotective sex . not a medical procedure . where do you come up with this braindead garbage ?
I didn't say it was, I said becoming pregnant can be seen as an invasive medical procedure if you are the woman who is impregnated regardless of how it happened, this is the attitude she will certainly adopt, because she is unwilling she will undoubtedly feel there was a medical invasive procedure which happened to her.
I think after three months of becoming pregnant, the woman has to accept that society has overruled her rights by leglisative enactment and prescribe that it has become her social duty to become a mother and continue with the pregnancy.
Some people if not most people world wide believe the Malthusian doctrines are "braindead" but long ago in my life I saw in them an integration individual rights within the limits of biological opportunity developed by an free thinker not a dogmatic Theologian.
His ideas were in accordance with contemporary opinions about human procreation and the reality of an ultimate population ceiling which is coming to fruition 300 years after he conceived the relationship with the abstinence quality of procreation not withstanding.
In 1978 when I was studying economics the expected population was considered to peak at 27 billion some said over 35 billion, that's when free trade was being launched in opposition to protectionism, now it's protectionism being launched in opposition to free trade, I was opposed then and opposed now.
Mainly the reason I'm.opposed to protecrionisn now is because AI is now able to be factored in with the 5G roll out on the way very soon this will further inhibit protectionism which won't be either able to be accomplished or sustained where it still exists.
AI will favour economies of scale and primary produce and some resources will become in short supply due to Climate Change and ecological degradation, so in my view the population ceiling will "need to" be reduced to 6 to 7 billion.
With 200k yearly immigration Australia's population woul double in slightly less than a generation, Australia's population doubled from 10 to 20 million from 1958 to 2004 now it's expected to double becoming 40 million by 2048 at a lower rate of immigration.
From 2004 to 2048 is 44 years a generation is every 30 years but that included a low base starting point Australia reached 25 million people in 2018 so I think it will be 50 million in one generation that's 2048, that's only my reckoning, based on immigration increasing a bit to help pay my pension, and AI won't help Australia very much, in my opinion we all have to accept less consumer products being available this to many means a lower standard of frivolous living, - good job well all be better off.
Also while the proportion of residents born overseas is being reduced because of the nature of the increase being proportionally derived from a geometric progression ratio the Cultural Similarities will become more distinct, if going in the right direction, this Will Be a Good Thing.
Thomas Malthus was a preacher who lived just before Victorian times and it's hard to imagine we're ever going back to those rigid social ethical standards, to me individual choice in more important in what I believe than it was to Malthus, to me it's God against the individual, you can't order people not to abuse God's gift to humanity, I mean of course you can, but I can guarantee you're going to come up short.