TOO MUCH AM CIV

[keme_magnolia]

12:30 at night and at least three more hours of studying to go...and I'm updating lj. How productive of me. How do you guys feel about hitting your kids when their bad? Boys, specifically. Also how do you feel about over population? I get weird looks about both these issues. I really wasn't planning on ever spanking my kids, but there were no boys

Comments

[missa_1]

I'm impressed that you are so consistent and steadfast in your beliefs about birth control.
I guess my viewpoint comes down to this: overpopulation is a problem in other places and we shouldn't deny that. Having a child in America, it seems to me, will not affect the distribution in resources in other places and so is not really causing the effects of overpopulation in those places to be increased. So, basically, choosing not to have kids in America won't be a very effective stand against overpopulation.
As it comes to denying God's plans for bringing souls into this life- I think that in those places where your child will only lead a terrible life of starvation and suffering, it is advisable not to have one. Also, your child would not only be suffering itself, but by its consumption of resources it would cause more suffering for others. I believe it should be the job of parents before having a child to decide if they can provide a good life for it, and if not then postpone having it or decide not to altogether. However, in the places where this would be an issue, there is no access to birth control like we have it, and so really there is no way to help the problem besides telling people not to have sex when they feel there is nothing against it, so really there is nothing anyone can do (it seems to me).
wow that is depressing and utterly hopeless.
so, in short- having a kid in America won't contribute to the effects of overpopulation, and in places where overpopulation is a problem, there is nothing we can do but (in my opinion) hope that they choose not to procreate.
My boyfriend, on this same topic, was telling me that a major problem is that there is no healthcare available in some places because there are simply too many children, so a lot of them will die of simply a common cold. I would not want to bring a child into a world like that, so in that case I would choose not to have the child that God intended to put into this world. Call it free will or call it a disrespectful action, but that is what I would do. I would choose not to have it because I cared about it too much even before it was conceived. And that shows love for God's creation, at least.
So... yeah. i guess that's it for now.
this was a lot of fun for me.
Melissa (Missa)

[fountainhead687]

yeah, I agree with you mostly, but there is one little thing...
I think that whether you have a child in America or Africa or Asia or India the child will use resources. Not only that, but the child that you raise takes up your personal resources, leaving no room for maybe an orphan from an impoverished country where the people do not have access to knowlege about birth control or actual birth control. so, I disagree with the idea that having a kid in america is not adding to the overpopulatio problem.

[turquoisepiano]

Any child anywhere will use resources but that is not the question. The question is whether or not those resources that an American child uses would be used by a child in a 3rd world country. The fact is that they're not. Until they are, this point is irrelevant. Secondly, it's plausible that resources could be transferred from what would be a well-off American child to a adopted orphan, but what do you think the odds of that are? I'd bet that people who adopt are either people that simply can't have children, or are people who already do and are just generous. That leaves no reason to have less children in America.

I guess I'm having trouble with what you've said because you see people as objects that can be measured quantitatively. This is understandable since you're talking about people that haven't been born yet, but people don't just consume energy, they generate it as well.

[spazmaticus_x]

free will baby, yeah