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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

> >  However, what worries me is that it seems that only stupid people have 
> > lots of children nowadays.
> Diane, you're veering into elitist Social Darwinism here.
I just started reading "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," so it's 
particularly interesting to see INW'er's concerned over
> > ... Zero Population Growth and Negative Population Growth.... Overpopulation
> ...The invisible hand of Malthus..
And this, I especially like, Thomas:
> > IMO, every baby born is a roll of the dice.
It's damn poetic, seriously, it is:-)
Ed W


> 2/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> Diana Duncan wrote:
> > Why don't people talk about Zero Population Growth and Negative 
> > Population Growth any more?  Overpopulation contributes to so many of the 
> > problems on our planet today.  The world used to be able to rely on 
> > periodic massive wars or plagues to control the population, but we seem 
> > to have curbed their effectiveness.  (At least for now...the overuse of 
> > antibiotics may come back to kick us in the ass, and it seems viruses are 
> > mutating pretty darn fast lately).
>
> The invisible hand of Malthus can be delayed but not denied!
>
> > As a personal choice, I prefer to limit my offspring.
>
> Caelan:  "Mo-oooom, you never let me do /anything/!"
>
> >  However, what worries me is that it seems that only stupid people have 
> > lots of children nowadays.
>
> Diane, you're veering into elitist Social Darwinism here.  It's an easy 
> conclusion to make, but only from a pretty narrow perspective.
>
> > Most educated people are concerned with careers and with providing safe, 
> > happy upbringings for their children, and rightly conclude that smaller 
> > families make this more likely.  Uneducated or extremely religious folks 
> > make the opposite choice.
>
> Umm, like the offspring of Prescott Bush?
>
> IMO, every baby born is a roll of the dice.  A child's social environment 
> does not determine his or her cultural or political destiny as an 
> adult.  Some of the brightest, most politically progressive people I know 
> come from lower-income families.  And frankly, there are lots of extremely 
> intelligent and wealthy neoconservatives getting educated at Duke and UNC 
> both.  I met them in large numbers when I studied at both places.
>
> TaB
>
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