Thanks. My question wasn’t bait. It comes from repurposing the innocent but (for a two-boxer) uncomfortable “why ain’tcha winning?” question, by applying it to the population level. As a population, South Korea (TFR=0.72 and falling) doesn’t look like it’s winning the Malthusian game. 2.04 sounds almost sustainable. And Africa has a TFR>4.
No, I think it’s still a bad thing because (as with most religions) it fuels beliefs that prevent people from even considering trying to solve problems like aging and death because “heaven will be better than mortality”, “God will make everything better”, etc.
Yeah, fair enough. Something like that would be my response too. Though I would add that solving aging is not the quite the same as solving a low total fertility rate. There is also the broader issue of dysgenic trends, with a negative correlation between TFR and IQ, but that takes us too far here.
Thanks. My question wasn’t bait. It comes from repurposing the innocent but (for a two-boxer) uncomfortable “why ain’tcha winning?” question, by applying it to the population level. As a population, South Korea (TFR=0.72 and falling) doesn’t look like it’s winning the Malthusian game. 2.04 sounds almost sustainable. And Africa has a TFR>4.
Yeah, fair enough. Something like that would be my response too. Though I would add that solving aging is not the quite the same as solving a low total fertility rate. There is also the broader issue of dysgenic trends, with a negative correlation between TFR and IQ, but that takes us too far here.