Goodspeed wrote:martinspjuth wrote:Goodspeed wrote:martinspjuth wrote:Goodspeed wrote:fightinfrenchman wrote:Why do people think overpopulation is such an issue
For me the issue isn't overpopulation, it's that people who shouldn't be reproducing are doing so at a higher rate than people who should be, like incog said.
Yeah! Only the superior people should be able to reproduce,
Disagree, I think everyone should be able to reproduce. How do you even decide who is "superior"?
Precisely my point. So how do you decide who should and shouldnât be reproducing?
I just asked
you that. How was repeating the same question back to me ever a satisfying answer in your mind?
There are several ways you could, depending on what you think are important. A professional football player is for example superior to an amateur in the context of football. To decide who is superior as human is something you shouldnât do however.
When you say âsome people shouldnât reproduceâ while you want others to do it, to me that means you think some people are better qualified for reproduction. So my question to you was how you decide who is better qualified for reproduction and who isnât?
It was a satisfying answer in my mind since I thought you would understand that it was this last question that I wanted you to answer.
Are not the ones who should reproduce by definition âsuperiorâ to those who shouldnât?
No, just better qualified to be parents.
Might be me that is using the English language in a wrong way, but what you just said does to me mean that you think some people are superior to others in the context of raising children. Also, how do you deem so many people to be bad parents that it would have an effect on the world population if they stopped reproducing?
You did say you think some people shouldnât reproduce.
"Shouldn't" does not equal "shouldn't be allowed to". Those are your words not mine.
Sure. But as I wrote to iNcog, this started in the context of overpopulation and child limit policy. So to me it seemed you wanted to actively do something about it, like prohibiting some people who you think will be bad parents from reproducing. And we are only not talking about the obvious child abuser but on the scale of hundreds of millions for it to influence the world population.
I agree. But you say some people shouldnât reproduce, how do want to stop them from doing that if not by sterilizing them?
You don't.
Nice, we can agree on that one.
I understand. So I assume your only point is that some people are lesser qualified for reproduction that others?
Yeah, I don't share your opinion that we should sterilize "inferior" people.
I most certainly have no such opinion. If you really didnât get the sarcasm in the first post, I donât know what to say.