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To: The_Republican
And yet human beings today are on the whole healthier, wealthier, longer-lived, better-fed, and better-educated than ever before.

Yes, mainly in the countries with the lowest birth rates. Take China for instance. Indeed, their huge population is much better off by standard measures, than it was a couple of generations ago. But look at the intense program to curb births that went along with that.

Make a map of the world with each country labelled for its birth rates, per capita income, and life expectancy, and I think you'll see that more babies does indeed translate into more misery.

6 posted on 06/18/2008 2:37:56 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Make a map of the world with each country labelled for its birth rates, per capita income, and life expectancy, and I think you'll see that more babies does indeed translate into more misery.

You're confusing cause and effect. As life gets better for people, as income and life expectancy rises, after a brief lag time they begin to have fewer children.

Fewer children does not create a better life for people. The better life leads to fewer children.

This process has been observed for over a century as countries modernize. I don't know of a single exception to the rule. Except maybe Utah.

35 posted on 06/18/2008 4:58:49 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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