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I'm surprised Schopenhauer hasn't been brought up yet.
I suppose it depends on how you look at it. I mean, the world is overpopulated as it is, but do we (as intelligent people) have the obligation to try and reproduce to the point where there are more intelligent people being born than dumbasses? No homo, but Plan9 certainly makes a strong argument for himself (although having never met him, I can't really offer any counterpoints because I don't know many of his negative traits), so does he have the obligation to try and produce as many babies as possible, in the hopes that he and others like him making more kids than the dumbasses on maury, springer, montel, etc?
As it is, we no longer live in a time of natural selection. Now we have welfare, police, firefighters, EMTs, medicare, etc, so it's harder to weed out the idiots, which surely is at least partly why we are so damn overpopulated.
Me personally, I wouldn't mind having a little girl someday, someone I could spoil rotten and nurture and take care of. Of course, I have asthma, bad eye sight, and bad hearing, not to mention my family history of bipolar disorder, numerous cases of suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, heart disease. Granted, I listed only the negatives here, but i think my point remains valid.
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