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OftenBen  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Long, Slow Death of Religion

    there's a whole bunch of other ways to do this besides religion.

    At this point we leave the discussion on religion and transition into a parent's right to raise their children.

Agreed.

I feel compelled to mention at this point that I am pretty against the idea of most people being parents. I think that bringing a child into the world and raising a competent, self-sufficient, pro-social, healthy, mostly-happy adult is possibly the most difficult thing that a lot of people will ever do, and few are able to do it well.

The harder acknowledgement for me personally, is that human imperfection makes it so that there really isn't a better option than giving people all the freedom we can, all the information we can, and hoping that they make good informed decisions. Every other suggestion on this issue is some form of eugenics, in that formal criteria for who is and who isn't allowed to have babies would be created.