(February 28, 2014 at 8:05 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I'm pretty sure we have enough people that we don't have to worry about keeping the species alive, even if people that actually made babies were in the minority. I mean if you want to be against it, fine. I just can't see a good reason for it. "It's icky" is not a good reason beyond whether or not you do it in your personal life.
The population being large is only important as long as our tech is even close to being on the same level as other peoples. Do I have memories of bulrathi and sakkra throwing their people at other empires in a desperate attempt to take them down? Why yes... yes I do.
Hard to properly blitz with them in a huge galaxy, though.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day