Comment by popalchemist
6 hours ago
The world is always full of danger. This moment in time is exceptional only in the form of that danger, not in its substance.
When those of us with noble traits -- intelligence, empathy, morality and so on -- refuse to reproduce, we do so at the cost of allowing the OTHERS who lack those traits to make up a larger and larger percentage of the population. They WILL reproduce.
Food for thought.
Are we back to the beliefs into inherited nobility already?
This could also be read as a take on the nurture aspect of childrearing.
There are things that aren't true but the wider society must believe to be true in order to maintain social order. Think of religion for example. "We are all equal" is also one of those things.