system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Yes, near or above replacement rate. We're not technologically, sociologically, or psychologically advanced enough as a species to handle our population, much less the forced idea of infinite growth that we've been locked into for the last 200 years as a species. I'm not saying no one should have kids ever, but most people shouldn't have kids, and those that do should only have one, or at most two.

We can't advance technology or our collective sociological ideology fast enough to support ourselves, and we don't support ourselves now, at all. Few people ever regret having kids, even people with kids that go on to murder others usually can't bring themselves to hate the kid, instead hating themselves for apparent failure.

That's a problem, because when you have one kid, you're significantly more likely to have another... and another. Depending on your social group, you'll even be encouraged to have more kids than you can take care of, because at a certain point in poverty, you just have to commit ten years to that kid before he's adding back to the family resource pool. In some groups this is less encouraged, with people self-limiting, overcoming their biology due to social pressures, and only keeping to one or two kids due to financial pressures.

This isn't to take away from parents that love their kids and recognize that with each additional child, the chances all of your children grow up in a world worse than the one you grew up in, the chances that all of your children will live a worse life full of more hardship than you did, all increase exponentially. Paradoxically if you love your children, you need to not have them, or certainly not many of them. There's nothing you can do, individually, to reduce this trend as a parent no matter how hard you try or how hard you work -- it's a collective problem that needs a collective solution based on individual decisions.
gpt
&gt;Paradoxically if you love your children, you need to not have them, or certainly not many of them.

I love my nonexistent children so much that I'm not having them to begin with!