by Dominion » Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:10 pm
it would be best if we could just clone ourselves so that we don't have to rely on a separate sex to propagate our 'selfish-genes'.. at least that's the vibe i got from reading some of the comments in this thread. sure there will be a long, bloody battle after each sex is deemed completely unnecessary to the other in an attempt to secure what will be regarded as 'a waste of resources' but it's not like the world (of human's) doesn't want this. it is the only future i can foresee emerging from such a scientific discovery.
the topic of child bearing in the west has now, or seems to be now, shifted entirely onto the jurisdiction of 'female beings' so much so that men are now afraid to even have a say in the matter and just side-step the issue all together, blame people of lower socioeconomic standing, or join the masses and side with the side they find 'most logical'. quite possibly all of the above and, impossibly, none of the above.
frankly this shouldn't even be an issue but it seems some groups would rather force their views on others simply because they don't have the options the other group do.
you ask me, the west(ernized civilizations) is suffering from a type of syndrome that i've coined into the phrase of 'Paradise Sydrome'.
also i should point out that, in the past, child bearing actually had a purpose in the sense it was a necessity to have children (help out with the household work, farm hands, etc). the rest of the world still hold's true to this idea but it is a much more harsher reality in these places because if the child is not useful in the least, it WILL NOT be given a chance to live out his/her life like those in westernized countries (see example of India begging children). children just aren't necessary anymore in the west.
child bearing is now viewed as a(n) (major) inconvenience to the point where only foreigners are the ones having children in the west. the last thing you want to do (in the west(ernized countries)) is bear a child in the hopes he/she will become some cultural or scientific revolutionary.
funny enough, Battle Angel Alita's author put it best: If humanity can achieve immortality then children are merely dangerous X factors that need to be completely done away with.
on a completely SEPARATE note... i wonder what china is going to do with all those men.
to add to the topic of overpopulation: all the third world countries who do not share western views on abortion seem to be doing fine on the over population issue. maybe abortion is just some conspiracy to prevent people from having children because the current mode of government (or maybe even ANY government) can't support large populations. /theory
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