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oh, well, this is a purely artificial problem, one stemming from the facts that western culture is basically too eager to be nice, as well as, of course, the various maneuvers of the Cold War. It could be cured in one or two generations by the simple expedient of stopping ALL medical and food assistance to "developing" nations. The same logic which argues against taking extreme measures to prolong the agony of a single life that was not meant to survive can be expanded to apply to non-functional cultures.
I am in favor of allowing the problem of overpopulation to solve itself. It is an ugly way to think, I admit, but it is more defensible than prolonging and extending the problem over further generations. It just doesn't produce a false "feel good" glow the way "feeding the hungry" does.
I dunno about you, but I am not in need of a "feel good" glow.

It could be cured in one or two generations by the simple expedient of stopping ALL medical and food assistance to "developing" nations.

I agree. All our aid to these foreign nations does is tell them they don't need to work to feed themselves. I mean think about it, if they cant feed themselves now, then they each have 6 kids, and 20 years later their population has tripled, how is that going to make the problem any easier? All our good intentions do is make the problem worse and worse every generation, then thy flood into our countries and destroy the hand that is feeding them. And endless train of worthless third world immigrants who flee their hellhole countries to come to ours, then file ACLU discrimination lawsuits calling us a horrible country. If we're so horrible why are they falling over themselves to illegally invade our country. They should be treated just like warlike invaders. I don't really see a difference between third world invaders today, and the Mongols invading eastern europe, or the Moors invading Southern Spain. Hey the Mongols were just looking for a better life too.

You can say it's an artificial problem, but it is a severe problem, and one I don't see being fixed. The Pope recently pleaded with Italians to have more children to help reverse the declining birthrates. I think Italy's birthrate is around 1.2 children per woman, which means every generation the population is essentially being cut in half. Now I ask you, how does abortion, murdering the next generation of our society help that problem? We get leaders blasting on talk shows how we dont have enough workers to do the jobs and thats why we "NEED" illegal immigrants to save us from ourselves. Why can't we just have our own children? Again, Russia has 225 abortions per 100 live births. Imagine how much better off we'd be with all those people living, working, learning, producing, thinking. Maybe the scientist that could have solved Fusion Power was conceived, but subsequently aborted. We're throwing away a massive potential.