More generally, I believe that people who have a hard time getting started on sexual/romantic relationships have parents who didn't have a good relationship.
Interesting. What evidence do you have for this?
I believe we're looking at a bottleneck where only people who really want children are having children, and I don't know what the outcome will be.
Extrapolating from the current situation, feminists, liberals, environmentalists and the highly educated don't have kids, while conservatives and religions people do. In the unlikely case that there is no singularity or genetic engineering or brave new world style babies in tubes for the next few hundred years, the world turns back into a medieval theocracy, with nukes.
I find it plausible that at least some of the people who don't want sex have had a traumatic sexual history. I really can't say that the world is a worse place because such people don't have to have sex to have children.
It depends on how it affects them. If they are a complete nervous wreck because of the trauma, maybe it is best they don't have children? But that is a worst-case scenario.
Extrapolating from the current situation, feminists, liberals, environmentalists and the highly educated don't have kids, while conservatives and religions people do. In the unlikely case that there is no singularity or genetic engineering or brave new world style babies in tubes for the next few hundred years, the world turns back into a medieval theocracy, with nukes.
This is a commonly-repeated point which I have seen no evidence for. Specifically, I am aware of no evidence that propensity to believe in religion is passed on as a hereditary trait. Ind...
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