Thursday, August 8, 2013

Democracy has an inherent bias towards pro-natalism


"Even where democracies take no formal steps to increase the birth rate, we should note that democracy has an inherent bias towards pro-natalism. Given that the majority prevails (even if within certain liberal constraints), each sector of a democracy’s population is incentivized to produce extra offspring in order for its interests and agendas either to prevail or at least to hold their own. Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation."

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