"It will be interesting to see what happens when the inevitable wave of Android tablets hits over the next six months."

No.. Not really.

Those are two very good points that I will definetely take into account from now on.
What I'm really getting at is that the larger the number of people in developed countries, the larger the demand for products cheaply produced by poor humans. It sucks enough that they're poor, don't make them work for chickenfeed on top of that. If we would pay them reasonable salaries for non-dangerous jobs, then sure, but good luck getting some kind of union going, let alone the reasonable payments.

I guess you're right in some sense that an extremely low salary is better than no salary, but I somehow feel that both are just as bad. I'd rather see the kid pretty much as poor as now (I mean it's not like he or she can actually afford stuff any way on the current pay) but not risking his or hers health mining/manufacturing stuff 20 hours a day. I agree that our not having babies wouldn't stop exploitation of cheap labour, but it would most likely simplify making changes that would eventually lead to grown-ups doing their job for a fair pay, and the kids being educated in schools instead.

Well ok. That makes a lot more sense.

To be honest I am highly uninfiormed regarding the actual replacement-rates etc.
Thank you for enlightening me, and godspeed on your recreational endeavors!

Who am I to judge?

I'm the guy whose entire species will die out like a virus in a petri-dish because of egoic thoughts like yours. I'm the guy who has to explain to his girlfriend how I personally want kids, but I feel I don't want to add more resource-munching, polluting egoistic creatures to the already crowded world.

Who are you to raise a small army of piss-ants whose only possible way of life is getting goods cheap from countries in abject poverty? Who are you to put your instictive biological clock ahead of the interest of the entire world?

"But I don't have any kids!"
No, but you are most definately defending peoples right to give birth like machineguns, and that's almost just as bad.

Maybe so, but back then the earth wasn't quite as over-populated, right? Some of those kids would likely die, right? They didn't need assloads of cheaply manufactured, yet expensive shit, right?

According to my extremely uninformed calculations, bringing up one kid in a wealthy country automaticly fucks atleast three other third-world babies in their proverbial colons (meaning they'll be making clothes, food, electronics etc. for a salary that you can indirectly afford).

Also, if every couple has more than two babies, and all of them lead healthy lives, the eventual overpopulation is un-a-fucking-voidable by very simple math. How hard is this for people to understand!? Reproducing is not a god-damned right. Well it might be a right, but that doesn't make it ethically or morally correct.

I'd very much like to have babies one day, but I don't feel I really have the right to, given the current state of mankind. Why am I the only one ready to keep my boys in my balls?

I am app has been approved?

Does not compute.

for Swedish, Cunnilingus and Jive.

No, sir. I did not.

Thank you.

Now that I have a choice, I don't interpret it that way either.

*shudder*

Because that choice is extremely likely to be based on faulty perceptions and psychological issues, and is very likely to be a choice you would regret if you'd been able to (of course, there are always exceptions that cannot be decided upon beforehand). In other words: in this case you would be the wildly selfish one (again, to deflect bitching: in approximately 99% of the times).

This again? Really?

Have you divided the size of the earth with the number of people alive today lately?

You nailed it, my friend!

However, I think suicide should be prevented by all reasonable means possible. Euthanasia on the other hand is not for anyone but the terminally ill patient to decide, regardless of what relatives and professionals believe the chances of survival to be. People rarely argue that preventing euthanasia is in fact a wildly selfish act.

That's exactly how I don't feel I should have to live my life. This whole "If you've got nothing to hide..."-crap is getting on my nerves. I should not be assumed to be a criminal unless proven otherwise! Your "solution" is not a solution at all, but a stepping around the problem and in the end an assistance for the continuation of said problem.

I agree that I should not PUBLICLY voice my opinion in matters that I don't want people to know about, but everything else is my goddamned business

At risk of having my e-peen shrunk to negative volume: I don't get it, but I wish I did.