I was talking with my friend the other day and he pointed out one of the topics of interest in Larry Niven's novel, Saturn's Race, and it was about birth control. Niven had a particular view of birth control and it is a view that most had not seen and even heard and to think about it is quite absurd.
Birth control tends to limit a section of society, though we generally think it affects all of society. Who believes in birth control the most would be the ones affected for the most part, for its intellectual, economical, and even political reasons. Some of these have small-sized families.
Then there is that other part of society that doesn't believe it should be done, with different rationales to it, some utterly morose, sick and even sexist, some decent. Especially in the provinces, people say using condoms is like eating candy with the wrapper.
The smart ones would say, "Its just plain rational to use birth control," and add that to all the arguments they have given, most of them reasonable and then marketed with some form of nationalism or spiritualism. Of course, the risk of AIDs should be thought of, being an epidemic in Africa yet spread out more by psychology and sociology than physics and biology. Let's stick to birth control.
But my friend said, basing it on what Niven wrote, "Who are we breeding for?" Or, which part gets to multiply more?
Birth control tends to limit a section of society, though we generally think it affects all of society. Who believes in birth control the most would be the ones affected for the most part, for its intellectual, economical, and even political reasons. Some of these have small-sized families.
Then there is that other part of society that doesn't believe it should be done, with different rationales to it, some utterly morose, sick and even sexist, some decent. Especially in the provinces, people say using condoms is like eating candy with the wrapper.
The smart ones would say, "Its just plain rational to use birth control," and add that to all the arguments they have given, most of them reasonable and then marketed with some form of nationalism or spiritualism. Of course, the risk of AIDs should be thought of, being an epidemic in Africa yet spread out more by psychology and sociology than physics and biology. Let's stick to birth control.
But my friend said, basing it on what Niven wrote, "Who are we breeding for?" Or, which part gets to multiply more?
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