[Graymatter]

fertility rates would rise. That would be good for the country, for...we are consuming more human capital than we are producing - or to put it another way, we don't have enough young people to support our old people.

How very cannibalistic. Let's make more babies to support our elderly. Why settle for embryo stem cells when we can make whole slaves?

[Old Professer]

Now you know you just said that for effect; history shows us that whole families depend on the support of its younger members as they mature and enter their productive years.

While it isn't stated often as a public policy it is tacitly accepted worldwide and still practiced in less-materialistic societies.