JMiller
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You might be missing the point. I think most would agree, we are to blame for having sex and having a bunch of kids. No problem with that part of the discussion.We need to be careful not to give the government too much of the responsibility, our culture is ultimately to blame. I usually compare our current situation to the native Easter Islanders. Their culture involved cutting down trees to help move the giant stone heads (Moai) that they created. That was fine when the population was small, but as the population grew, they ended up cutting down almost all the trees. The population could no longer sustain itself and their civilization collapsed. It was the tree cutting behavior that needed to go, but it was too deeply ingrained in their culture for them to change. The question is, can our behavior change or is it too deeply woven into our civilization and human social organization.
The problem is in how YOU think we are going to educate the masses as you suggest?
How can we as individuals change a world of 7 billion? Put up bill boards, write books, what?
To me it makes more sense to go ahead and allow the government to function as this agent. Only we will have to demand they do it. If they refuse, we replace them with people who will. Right?