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Good post, but if we'd wait for people to be THAT well-planned, the world would be a much less crowded space... for bad and good.

I think you might be more pie-in-the-sky than I am.... :P

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I was talking about what folks would be smart to do, not what most will do. Most people aren't too smart. That of course is one big reason why there are more people working at McJobs than driving Mercedes.

In aiming for what to do in one's own life, or course, it's usually better to aim high, especially taking normal human weakness and folly and accident and bad luck into account. That way at least if one falls short, a mark might still be hit that's worth hitting. Embracing the average right off the bat might mean never even reaching the average at all.

There really are people in life who don't make the most obvious f*ck-ups. They're rare, but it's far from impossible.

I don't think it's very likely that the world will go lacking for children, either. Significantly, the best-off countries have low birthrates. The resultant lack of poverty attracts more immigrants from an endless supply. The world will go on without us either rushing our own reproduction or going overboard on it.

It wouldn't even be a bad thing if people would consider adoption more often. The world would be one heck of a better place.