Alright you caught me. I'm anti-human. I also favor residential zoning regulations within 5 miles of my home and that makes me anti-business. I also supported our neighborhood building a new park which makes me a tree-hugging hippie. Due to constitutional issues I disagree with Federal drug laws which makes me a no good doper.
Where did I say that to support something one must find that everyone who supports it is a good person? What I said was that the list of people who support zero or sub-zero population growth is a list of people who love death
I don't know how to respond to that. You asked a question and then immediately answered it. (example.....When did I ever type a contraction? You just don't pay attention.) By criticizing the list of people who advocate an issue you are in fact saying that the issue is not valid in part because of who advocates it. The bottom line is that I don't think the government should enact policies making it easier for fools and naer-do-wells to procreate and raise foolish and naer-do-well children. I think it is ridiculous to think that more is always better regardless of what or who the 'more' is.
That is not zero-pop. That is basic conservatism.
I think it is ridiculous to think that more is always better regardless of what or who the 'more' is.
1. I think it is ridiculous to think that less is better simply because they are less, or because they are less than some arbitrary number. That is the core of zero-pop.
2. I'd say that more corvettes in my life would be a definite good, and no one would argue that they were not an asset. However, if I left the top down on a couple of them every day for a year and the interiors rotted out, that would be on me, and a person who said "Fewer Corvettes is better, because yours are in bad shape" would be pretty far off target. Yet you say we should have fewer people because some people have treated their kids badly or squandered their lives. Same difference.
3. If my view that humans are an asset is so ridiculous, then please, share with me some historical data about empires or nations that followed a population reduction regime and did well. I'm sure you have plenty of examples.