(April 13, 2015 at 2:06 pm)Heywood Wrote: Sperm donation and surrogates would just be a hack solution to the problems that would arise.
With 7 billion people and rapidly growing, the "problem" would be quite welcome. If we could come down to only 3.5 billion in the next generation or two, the result of only half our numbers reproducing, the world would be so much better off. Fretting over "not enough children in the world" is worrying about a "problem" that would actually be a great solution to a very real and dire problem we're faced with.
Plus, you forget that restricting yourself to only two children is actually only a recent trend. Married couples would normally have 5-6 kids each if not more until this past century. J.S. Bach had some 21 children with only one wife at a time (he was a widower when he remarried; I think his first wife died of exhaustion). Even with the highly unlikely scenario that we could modify half the population to be gay, the remaining het couples could make up the difference without any trouble.
Quote:Not enough gays would voluntarily reproduce that way.
Actually, quite a few do right now. More will as we allow gay marriage. Others adopt for their heterosexual counterparts.
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