[popalchemist]

The world is always full of danger. This moment in time is exceptional only in the form of that danger, not in its substance.

When those of us with noble traits -- intelligence, empathy, morality and so on -- refuse to reproduce, we do so at the cost of allowing the OTHERS who lack those traits to make up a larger and larger percentage of the population. They WILL reproduce.

Food for thought.

[rixed]

Are we back to the beliefs into inherited nobility already?

[anal_reactor]

There are things that aren't true but the wider society must believe to be true in order to maintain social order. Think of religion for example. "We are all equal" is also one of those things.

[radlad]

This could also be read as a take on the nurture aspect of childrearing.

[popalchemist]

It is literally just game theory. If you don't act, others still will. Multiply that times 8 billion and you have an evolutionary process that rewards the dumbest amongst us.

[littlexsparkee]

So just teach those traits to other people? You don't need to have kids to help.

[popalchemist]

Yes, that is possible, and I didn't claim that having kids is the only way to influence humanity... obviously.