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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Trying to apply logic to biology is a futile endeavor. Logically, it doesn't make much sense for anyone to have children on the individual level. Except we've evolved to want to reproduce. This isn't a function of higher intelligence, so trying to look at it through the lens of higher intelligence doesn't really make sense.
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Talking about biology ... humans have already broken all boundaries of biology for several milleniums now, in order to breed much more than nature allows us to. In nature, there is are natural barriers to breeding profusely, and especially, the male participation in breeding (and bringing up offsprings) is very limited amongst mammals. While a huge population of males don't breed at all, most of those males who breed do it only a couple of times in their life, that too, towards the latter part of adulthood. Our societies, sought to beat this natural barrier by making the marriage institution and forcing all men to breed.
On top of that, today, the medical science has grown so advanced that mortality rate has gone down immensely, and all of this put together has resulted in a situation where human population has grown out of proportion to a point where mother earth can not bear any more humans on her surface. We've driven out several of the other species on the planet to a point of extinction, many are on the verge of extinction and for the rest we've made life pretty difficult.
The lives of humans themselves have become a great misery, and a large part of the human population is living below the poverty line.