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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Seriously, we would still be living in trees were it not for selfishness, greed, and competition...
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I was ready to comment, when I got to the end!
Okay, to be fair, we're not the only species that will overbreed and out-consume its surroundings (locusts come to mind), so we shouldn't be that hard on the natural breeding aspect of our psychology.
Unfortunately, we've used that desire to breed and molded it back into our culture, further reinforcing our psyches, to the extent that it seems unnatural to
not have children... and it's a shame that people actually feel bad for not having children, even when local overpopulation or its adverse effects are clear, like they've let society down or denied themselves a fundamental human right or something.
For the record, my money is on disease as well. Antibiotic-resistant diseases, combined with dense populations, will likely decimate us. I used to think I'd most likely die at the hands of a careless driver of a Mac truck. Now I expect to die of a flu no one can cure.