pronatalist
Sexy Member
Because the Pope says to have large families, isn't a sure reason. But there are far better reasons.
Yeah, he probably will. Somebody who is so interested in sex by age 20, I wouldn't be surprised if he has several children by age 30. But I doubt that everybody makes it through it. This "modern" world keeps us so busy and distracted, that too many people are endlessly procrastinating marriage, and some people become old, still not having married, still not having children, and often still virgins. Society in some, not so good ways, could be becoming more prudish, and seeing sex as a bit old-fashioned. And consider the fashionable new term, "DINKS." Double Income No Kids. Sounds like a social disfunction or disease. How can a couple live together, and never reproduce? Do they even have sex anymore? What are they, like cost-cutting roommates sharing resources? Who's going to look out for them and help them with their ailments, when they get old?
While I agree with a few minor points of the population phobics, their overall focus is so potentially destructive to civilization and society. Yes, human populations do naturally tend to grow exponentially, but I see that as a very good thing, as more and more people would be glad to live. But the Malthusians are being increasingly proven wrong, that an exponentially expanding and properly free-enterprise organized workforce, can't also naturally produce an exponentially-expanding supply of needed value-added resources. With increasingly nothing much to keep our burgeoning numbers "in check," that's all the more practical reason why we shouldn't bother, and to deliberately welcome the persisting baby booms to fill the cities and land with more and more people. I wouldn't lean towards Malthusianism, as it's so anti-freedom, and so unwilling to consider available alternatives. Even the sagging demographic trends don't suggest we need worry so much about population trends, well except maybe for the growing "birth dearth" and how that might undercut our economy or flood society with too many old people and not enough younger workers coming along, to keep everything working well.
I am not Catholic but Protestant, but I see great natural beauty and elegance, in welcoming the natural flow of human life to flow naturally, unhindered. It means huge numbers of people need not bother to select a method of "birth control." There's still much room for people to enjoy their "traditionally very large" families, even in the big city. But it helps to have a pronatalist society, one that eagerly looks to expand the human habitats, so that people can go on having all their precious darling babies, without growing too crowded too fast. It means it's okay to have lots of places settled by people, that weren't necessary so heavily populated by people all that long ago. The very idea of keeping the possibility of life open, is about allowing all the more fellow human beings to live, not population "stabilization," or stagnation as I would call it.
My ideology fits far more situations than some people like to admit. But I know that everybody's not going to go out have have possibly large families, just because I say so. No, they will have to find their own reasons, to possibly let their families grow large. What I say may only help them among that path.
One big beef I have against the whole idea of contraception, is that it's like at war, with what one's own human body is trying to do. The monthly period of a human female, is her body's "failure" at its monthly cycle attempt to get pregnant. Working with the body, means allowing the opportunity, to get pregnant, and then letting the occupied womb be a natural "spacing" of subsequent pregnancies. Even supposedly natural rhythm, seeks to artificially prolong periods of high fertility, with the body continually trying to get pregnant. I don't like that "war." Isn't the need for sexual relief, really a powerful reproductive urge? Built within our bodies is a powerful primal urge to grow the human population huger and huger, at a natural exponential rate. It's a gradual rate that I see as not particularly threatening, but also steady and relentless. I don't believe that things happen for no reason, but often for some profound and good reason. So we should embrace it and not fight it. God wants for humans to be numerous and to create vast civilizations. Morals are important for these complex civilizations to be functional and not self-destructive. So there's your practical and philosophical reasons for pronatalism in an increasingly populous world. If maybe we are growing anyway, and maybe we can't possibly stop it, why not embrace it and make the best of the situation? Steer that "force" towards doing the most good for humanity. They say "there is no going back." So the only option then, should be to go forwards.
