(repost because muh spellcheck lol)
One of the reasons birth rates are falling below replacement is that populations have simply grown too large to be reasonably sustainable. Through greed, most humans have been carelessly having children without any thought to the conservation of resources necessary to keep us alive and healthy as a species. We have failed our most vulnerable populations (the elderly, the physically and mentally disabled, the homeless, and others) by failing to implement reasonable and sustainable social welfare policies and practices to ease the burden on society by helping those who can be helped to become functioning individuals. I unironically think that embracing euthanasia instead of selfishly clinging to the lives of those who suffer, simply because their absence would make us sad in spite of their suffering, is also a problem (such as severely deformed or disabled individuals who barely cling to life, the terminally ill, and the severely mentally ill who are beyond any help, etc.) and changing our attitudes about death would help.
I understand that those against euthanasia think of the people closest to them and feel that there is maliciousness behind eugenics or euthanasia that could target their loved ones. They don’t like the idea of faceless committees deciding who’s worthy of life or death, and that’s a reasonable concern. But at the same time, those same faceless committees have already deemed who is and isn’t worthy of help and a reasonable quality of living through policies that punish the vulnerable for things beyond their control. There should definitely be strict guidelines, but euthanasia shouldn’t be so taboo. Nor am I saying it will solve all of our problems, only a fraction of the problem.
People do not want to care for each other anymore or are simply unable to, for reasons such as having too much on their own plate, low emotional empathy, fatigue, etc. Another thing is how abysmal one half of the population is (by that, I mean men). We need a severe cultural and societal overhaul, even to the point of genetic engineering if that’s what it takes, to reprogram men into being less violent and more compassionate. While there will always be conflict in the world and world peace is an unattainable fantasy, the least we could do is try to engineer society in a better way going forward. The future should be matriarchal but with heavy checks and balances to discourage favoritism among boymoms and pic
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