[ScottinVA]

Can’t blame them... no way would I ever want to bring children into this wretched, perverted world.

[Cronos]

Dude, this world is less perverted, less wretched and better today in 2020 than it was in 1950

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Things are getting better

[ek_hornbeck]

I don't really see low population growth as a problem per se. Would you really like the US to have a population density like India or China? Usually, high population densities and urbanization are associated with more regulations, bigger government, and less freedom, while wide open spaces with the opposite. That's why there aren't red and blue states, but rather red (rural) and blue (urban) counties. The overall quality of life - from higher pay for work (more competition for labor) and the cost of living (especially property) is lower as well.

The real problem is the population explosions in many Third World countries creating surpluses that their decrepit economies and infrastructures simply can't support, which leads them all clamoring to come here or to Europe. What will happen when the population of sub-Saharan Africa increases 2 or 3-fold with Europe and possibly the US as well wide open?

[heartwood]

Rome suffered plagues, invasions, perverse leaders, downfall. Their descendants live.

The American Indians, the same except maybe the perverse leaders. Their descendants yet live, thank God.

Every age has faced death, horror, defeat. The people had children, and sent them forth as soldiers into a hostile world.

There are no guarantees that your children will succeed or survive. The only guarantee is that if a people have no children, they will surely end.

I sent my children forth as soldiers. They need allies in this world!