[liberallarry]

That's realpolitic.

It's the way nations operate because it's the only way they can operate. Your objections sound very similar to utopian socialist objections to capitalism.

[Askel5]

We had no choice but to seek to control the reproduction of our own citizenry as well as the rest of the planet?

If we could not bring the birth rate down, it really was incumbent upon us to bring the death rate back up?

It's our "realpolitic" is what smacks of utopian Planning and Population Control where the utterly immoral is rationalized as some pragmatic necessity.