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  Ah yes, let's ignore the environmental consequences of overpopulation because you refuse to think of yourself as a mammal. And in response to one of your earlier comments, advocating for more responsible reproductive choices given our overpopulation problem is not being anti-child. Watching children starve and be neglected around the world and in our own communities while deciding to keep multiplying like rabbits is being anti-child. How about making sure that we have the resources to take care of the children already alive before deciding to make more?On Ask Umbra on big families posted 2 months ago 48 Responses

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  I agree with everything you've said wholeheartedly. Thank you for stating it so eloquently.On Ask Umbra on big families posted 2 months ago 48 Responses

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  I think there's a pretty clear difference between me, as a private citizen, advocating for people to take personal responsibility for a looming environmental disaster by making informed choices about the number of children they should have and a government statutorily limiting those options. 

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  I agree with Kristin510.  Having a child is inherently a selfish act, since reproduction is each organism's attempt to perpetuate its own genes.  Having a child is not a gift to the world, and people who think otherwise are deluding themselves.  My husband and I struggle with the question of whether we should have a child.  I tend to agree with the idea that every person should limit themselves to one child, at most, so the population can gradually decrease to a sustainable level.  More than one is not sustainable, and I think that anyone who thinks of themselves as an environmentalist needs to confront the fact that having a child is probably the most environmentally-unfriendly action you can take, even if you raise them to live lightly on the land.  It is frustrating for those of us who make important life decisions based on our understanding of our personal responsibility for the global environmental problem of overpopulation, to see other people explain away why it's okay for them to have 3 or 4 or more kids.  It's not okay, no matter how good of a parent you are.  You are taking resources needed by others by personally increasing the world's population.  Your four children will make it harder for my one child to have a good life in this world.  This is everyone's problem, and it's time that everyone took some responsibility for it.     

  On Ask Umbra on big families posted 2 months, 1 week ago 48 Responses

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  I've gotten flannel cotton hankies from Hankettes.  You can find them on-line.  They're very soft, especially after a couple washings.  I think even those with very sensitive noses would be pleased.  On A nosy review of recycled facial tissue posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago 10 Responses