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Originally Posted by blackarrow  Does there being orphaned and underprivileged human children mean it's automatically irresponsible to give birth to any of your own, no matter how well-prepared you are to take care of him or her? |
No, it doesn't. On the other hand, it would be nice if there could be more focus on adopting many of the parentless children that exist today, particularly when you consider the massive overpopulation problem (amongst humans) that exists.
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Originally Posted by lmarieaa We as human beings make the conscious desicion to bring children into the world. Animals are different in the fact that when the copulate, they did not go through the thought process of what it would mean to have babies. Animals are driven by instinct, not sentiment. |
Humans don't always make a "conscious decision" to have children. In many cases it's an accident, and entirely unintentional. And it's a bit absurd to assume or imply that all humans go through a "thought process" of any kind before reproducing.
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Originally Posted by sophistacavy Exactly. Its not like animals can decide to use a you know what or not. Animal condos (if you get what I meant by "condos" missing one letter) would be spaying/neutering. |
You know, sometimes things are best left unsaid. Or left to the imagination. Statements like this are unnecessary. And many times obnoxious.
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Originally Posted by blackarrow If you say that there's no possibility of responsible breeding for animals as long as there are animals which die due to lack of care, I don't see how you can say humans should reproduce as long as there are human children who die due to lack of care. |
Exactly. Well said.