The breeding of the unconscientious, who try not to saddle themselves with children and fail, are a side show. Their population will collapse at the slightest tremor.
I'm saying they should have understood duties well enough to not consider it a duty.
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Now this gets interesting. What should be considered duties?
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Duties have to be voluntarily undertaken. Generally in return for some privilege. Imposing duties unilaterally is corrupt. What is theft but unilaterally imposing the duty that you give me your wallet?
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Aha, interesting phrasing. From a societal standpoint I posit that duties are those things necessary for continuation of society: - Upholding oaths (maintains trust) - Serving in armed forces, as a man - Producing food, as a farmer - Bearing children, as a woman
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Now, only a dysfunctional system doesn't reward someone for doing something important. But to consider the reward part of the core of the duty is something I had not considered.
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I think it's bad marketing to shove childbearing on those who don't want it (and religion provided a way out for many women.) But as I consider duty to be a question of necessity, I had a hard time understanding why one would say producing the next generation was not a duty.
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It is neither good nor necessary to make reproduction obligatory. If one wishes, of their own voluntary will, to uphold their society, they may take on a duty to reproduce. Society should produce this will via negotiation. By offering members advantages over the Outside.
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By contrast, Modernism offers being harassed if you happen to fat-finger a pronoun, utterly inescapable taxes, and apparently little else.
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There have been times when it certainly seemed absolutely necessary to increase the population by any means. We in our current technological bubble, with much labor done by machines, have little way of relating to those times when more men were desperately needed.
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