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Originally Posted by Carnivore
I don't mean to be offensive at all, and I have nothing against David Williams.
I just find the concept of congratulating someone on having a baby kind of strange. It's not hard to do. Penis in vagina, ejaculate, wait a few months, let the doctor do his thing. Congratulating someone on raising a "good" child makes more sense.
It's not like the world needs more people so desperately. The world has 7 billion people and it's way too many. I actually think the human family model, where every person grows up expecting to have their own children someday, is a system that we as a species should've grown out of long ago. It's a system that multiplies the population, and I feel like it's a failure of the human species that we haven't been able to grow past those instincts, when clearly a lower birthrate would be much better for the world. The "one child per family" system that was briefly in place in China was the only time, to my knowledge, that humans showed we had the potential to be smarter than mold growing on a slice of bread when it comes to over-riding our reproductive instincts.
Sorry for the rant, I just find the concept of congratulating someone on having a baby to be quite silly and something that may have made sense in the past, but not really anymore.
Having said that, I still wish David and his family the best, and that the child is healthy, and that he will be a good father
Lol congratulating someone doesn't have to be giving them praise for something hard they accomplished, this should be pretty obvious. I'd congratulate someone on being healthy after having cancer etc.
Also, as we evolved humans certainly learned to our population like you are saying we should. Some humans killed or abandoned most babies upon birth because they realised higher population would be detrimental to their tribe/civilisation. Some killed all of them and forcibly adopted teens from other tribes. A lot of this was also before we even realised that sex=babies haha. Don't ask me why we don't do it anymore lol, guessing because we don't have the smart guys forcing us to only have x amount of children.
Anyway, /derail
Last edited by SmokeyQ123; 02-20-2011 at 10:53 PM.