Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Triggernometry"
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I disagree with the idea that "the pill" is, in the long run, terribly important in any positive way. The question that is currently playing out now, and will make an enormous difference through this century, is not whether women can delay (or forego) fertility. The question is should they (from a societal point of view), to what degree should they, and what are the consequences of their doing so to the extent that is happening now.
200 years ago (before sanitary plumbing, antibiotics, and vaccines), whether the pill was available or not, it would have been an extremely bad idea for women to take it. Any society in which a your average woman had less than 2 children (say, current-day England's ~1.6), would see a catastrophic population collapse within twenty or thirty years, as infant mortality took away a further 50% of those children. That society would then inevitably be replaced by a society that had a birthrate significantly greater than 2.1 -- 4.6 or so is typical for pre-scientific societies. That replacement would probably have been unspeakably ghastly.
It is still legitimate to ask, whether a society's norms should include usage of the pill, and how much. Leaving aside health effects of this form of medical waste in the water supply, the simple question of whether a society can survive the progression of three or four generations while sterilizing itself to this extent, is still as critical as it was in pre-scientific times.
It's clear that looking at today's numbers, by 2100 today's European culture is flat-out doomed. It will be replaced by a culture with far greater fertility numbers (2.1 at the least), and that society will look at its triumph over Europe, and congratulate itself on its wisdom regarding childbearing, and mock today's Europe for its foolishness and shortsightedness. Europeans will be very lucky if it does not include some unspeakably ghastly things as well, although the treatment of young bepilled working-class Englishwomen by some immigrant communities shows we're seeing that already.
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