Anonymous Mom, No Dads, + 14

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Well, I understand what you're saying, but I respectfully disagree that the world is not overpopulated. And I would say your example proves my point.

Looking at it from the other side, it is unsustainable to just keep growing the population in order to take care of the older population, because then all of those kids will need 3 people each to take care of them, and on and on. If we lived in a more equitable society/world, then there would be money enough for all the elders. Also, I firmly believe in the village mentality. (You know, Hillary Clinton's remark when she was First Lady that it takes a village to raise a child. I think it also takes a village to care for an elder.) If people weren't so self-centered and selfish and they looked out for one another, like they do in villages, we wouldn't have that problem. So rather than seeing it as a numbers thing, I see it as a human defect thing. It shouldn't only be family looking out for family, it should be the human race looking out for each other.