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OVERPOPULATION CORRUPTS IN MANY WAYS
Overpopulation typically means that children are conceived faster than they can be supported. This unfortunate state of affairs is commonly a product of evolution itself, that universal life force driving all momentarily-successful species to multiply until restrained by available life support.
Pests commonly understood by humans include cockroaches and bed bugs. Both are known to grow in number in human houses as long as food, water, and shelter allow.
Parents who intentionally conceive children they cannot support impose duties upon themselves that they cannot meet. Often, their children who cannot all be supported learn early games distinguishing what is “MINE” from what is “YOURS.” Greed becomes an emotion that crowds out softer aims.
Unlike children born “with silver spoons” to the rich or those born in often earlier lands of “milk and honey,” overpopulation conceptions tend to teach powerful lessons of hardship.
Violence and enslavement are just a few ultimate consequences among many when children are conceived without necessary parental support.
OVERPOPULATION CORRUPTS MORAL VALUES
This Overpopulation Corruption plate summarizes increased pressure on humans competing for survival in one very simple example. But such pressure becomes ubiquitous throughout human worlds.
Among human societies, moral golden rules generally encourage caring by those with resources allowing for care for others in need. As resources become scarce due to the hungers of too-many, “us versus them” passions become increasingly aggravated. Why should “their” children have what our children deserve? What can we do to make sure that our children get what our children need as our human world becomes increasingly crowded?
Does it become harder to teach universal “do for others as you would want done for yourself” values, when doing so could put your life and those you love in danger?
OVERPOPULATION CORRUPTS INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL VALUES
Parents having conceived children they cannot afford need others to support those children. Such pressures drive “previously-wealthy” democracies governed by majority rule into redistribution of wealth. Unless such redistribution programs achieve future conception only of children whose parents can support them, redistributions become as unsustainable as the original conceptions.
Institutional policies develop in favor of more people for various reasons. Businesses may seek to outcompete other businesses for marketshare and influence.
History records endless examples of businesses and governments, including both religion businesses and religion governments, who promote unsustainable conceptions to reduce the cost of labor and/or increase the availability of soldiers.
As continuing overpopulation worsens the condition of “previously wealthy” societies, governments are drawn into further unsustainable modes to maintain help that increasingly, no one can afford. Examples include raiding public treasuries for “borrowable funds” that will not be able to be paid back in the future. US Social Security in the 2020’s is an example.
Another is wild printing of “fiat currencies,” money not worth the paper bills are made of. History records horrendous examples of formerly great nations stealing from, and sometimes obliterating minorities to prop up failing levels of unsustainability. See Aly’s Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
OVERPOPULATION CORRUPTS RELIGIOUS & PHILOSOPHICAL MORAL VALUES
Overpopulation corrupts golden-ruled values.
Major religions typically claim legitimacy by any of countless beautiful expressions of golden-ruled goals and values for building better worlds. See “Golden rule in Religions” But as babies are conceived faster than support them, such children find themselves in hard competitive worlds. People change. Loving, comfortable societies become pressurized, angry places. Groups become increasingly fearful about the existence of other resource-consuming groups.
Pleasant lives of Locke’s philosophy become much tougher times in a Hobbesian world.
Golden rules of sharing become harder to follow when logic increasingly demands greed and violence in widening individual, economic, political, and military spheres.
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