@CL, your views are great... but they pertain to a society with not enough people for all the land that needs tending.
Our society doesn't require that each couple have many children to help with the work around the fields... Many of us don't even have fields to tend... just bills to pay. But women keep producing eggs every month, or so. Women's bodies have yet to catch up with common usage...
As a result of this disparity, undesired pregnancies occur. Often.
Luckily, there's a way to be aware of them and, if that is the wish of the parents, prevent those fetuses from ever becoming sentient.
Should we force people to endure those unwanted pregnancies? and all that comes with a child? nursing, daycare, diapers, sleepless nights, educating, teaching, teenage, drugs, diseases, blah, blah, blah...
Should we, as a society force people to be parents when they don't want to?
What is the best compromise? kill a fetus or force people to be parents?
The big picture here encompasses a world where the threat of overpopulation is looming on the horizon...
The bigger picture.... well.... we're just a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam... nothing matters.
Our society doesn't require that each couple have many children to help with the work around the fields... Many of us don't even have fields to tend... just bills to pay. But women keep producing eggs every month, or so. Women's bodies have yet to catch up with common usage...
As a result of this disparity, undesired pregnancies occur. Often.
Luckily, there's a way to be aware of them and, if that is the wish of the parents, prevent those fetuses from ever becoming sentient.
Should we force people to endure those unwanted pregnancies? and all that comes with a child? nursing, daycare, diapers, sleepless nights, educating, teaching, teenage, drugs, diseases, blah, blah, blah...
Should we, as a society force people to be parents when they don't want to?
What is the best compromise? kill a fetus or force people to be parents?
The big picture here encompasses a world where the threat of overpopulation is looming on the horizon...
The bigger picture.... well.... we're just a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam... nothing matters.