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Shouldn't people like you be having more children? If society is really crumbling, we need more people who have the right ideas about how to rebuild it. I'm not being sarcastic by the way. I imagine we have similar concerns about Western civilization.


Absolutely. On the one hand, having a comparatively large family (3 kids) and raising them well would be one very strong thing one could look at on one's deathbed and be comforted by knowing you did your part to help.

On the other hand, there's something morally uneasy about bringing children into something you know to be broken. As we correctly recognize, children won't fix a damned relationship and bringing them into one can harm them long term. It sort of feels like that but on the macro scale.

All that being said, we are leaning on the side of having a large (as above) family, but it doesn't come with an uneasy feeling.




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