CHILDREN USED AS PAWNS

I generally like the company of children, in small doses. All of us, with the exception of people with severely diseased or traumatized brains, are programmed to like babies and small children. This is one factor contributing to human overpopulation. A human brain, unimpeded by intelligence, can run like a loose train to its biochemical addictions. Making babies, which cause parents to feel good biochemically, can become a breeding addiction, with absolutely no relationship to good or even adequate child-rearing capability or competence.

Enter the illegal migrant throngs on our southern border. Why do you suppose life is so cheap in the countries these migrants are fleeing? Is it really all about drug gangs? Look deeper. Why are drug gangs evolving into dominating extended families in these countries? If an environment is in balance with its resources and its population, is it likely to be reduced to abject poverty and the survivalist brutality of a drug culture? 

What is happening worldwide is not about politics. Politics and its inability to adapt to the rapid escalation in the decline of global human ecology are the tip of the actual iceberg. The rest of the iceberg is the socially muffled reality that there are simply too many human beings being born on the planet. Even more anathema is mentioning that there are especially too many unskilled and uneducated human beings on the planet. And those human beings are most likely to have children they are incapable of providing for. 

The implicit social and political concession that this state of affairs is unquestionably acceptable is frankly preposterous. Yes, I know The United Nations and countless religious organizations would readily condemn me for simply making this observation. Some might want to exterminate me for making this observation. One noted intellectual, when commenting on overpopulation, stated outright that anyone who felt humans were overpopulating should simply commit suicide as a personal solution to the problem. He is a father, of course. And for all his obsession with cold scientific statistics, he is blind to this issue's relevance to the dysfunctional behaviors he is constantly lecturing about for profit. 

Children have probably been human shields and a sort of life insurance for parents since the beginning of human cognition. But I am a person who was never treated this way as a child. I was fortunate to be raised by two human beings who took parenting very seriously. While they were not the most liberal fans of my autonomous development as a human being, they did want me to be a self-sufficient and contributing member of society. Their expectations of me were not centered on what I could and would do for them as a child or when I became an adult. 

The heterosexual world accepts the notion generally that giving birth to a human being is some kind of gift to that person. This is pure rationalization. The observed reality of my nearly 70 yrs on the planet is quite different. Children are often conceived intentionally to seal the inter-dependency of two adults in a sexual relationship. Most children are conceived accidentally as a result of a sexual relationship between two adults who have not mapped their journey as parents at all. A small percentage of human children globally are born intentionally to two well adjusted parents who have indeed mapped that journey with intelligence and proper means. And those responsible parents are now being cast as privileged and liable for the masses of countless unloved and unsupported children of the developing world. There is no intelligence or morality in that position. It is extortion. 

The sad truth is that vetting is more rigorous for adopting an abandoned pet from an animal shelter than it is to produce a baby in the most enlightened societies. That is because there is no vetting of a potential mother with the physical ability to produce another human being. This side of reproductive rights goes unquestioned, while the reproductive rights of an intelligent and responsible woman who decides she does not want to give birth has been a matter for endless debate and even derision in human society. If any intelligent person cannot grasp the absurdity of this, then the human species may indeed be doomed. 

I do not subscribe to any mythology that sanctifies my birth as a privilege. Privilege as opposed to what? Blissful nothingness? It was not voluntary in the least. I accept that it was simply a random natural phenomenon associated with sexual intercourse between a man and a women who initiated my life on a cellular level. It is from this perspective that I feel intense sorrow for the children of ignorant parents without the capability to provide for them. Yet I do not and will not subscribe to any political or social model that dictates that those children are my fiscal responsibility. 

This does not mean I will not be open to helping them. But I will not be forced by social or political pressure to accept that they are my fiscal responsibility. It is my expectation that whatever social or governmental entities I support as a citizen do the work of thoroughly vetting the parents and children who make claim to my support as a citizen or donor. Open borders are a pipe dream of the financially spoiled and/or unrealistic. Welfare states which promote pregnancies of the unskilled and uneducated are self-destructive. The money which goes to welfare of this kind would be better spent on early sex education and contraception services. Monthly stipends should be given to the struggling or incompetent who remain childless. 

Pushing videos of children to be pitied does not shame me. It angers me on many levels. It causes me to grieve for the children. The thought of those who have brought those children to this life disgusts me. Their shamelessness, in my opinion, is outrageous. Their audacity to claim victim status behind the human shields of children they have brought into their misery is more outrageous.