Humanity's Lyceum
Did you know that most of America's fertility rates are lower than the replacement rates? Some of you might ask... what the heck are those? Well, a fertility rate is the average amount of kids women are having, and the replacement rate is the amount of kids women need to have in order to maintain the current population. The reason I bring this up is because it seems that the current world view on having kids is changing, but changing to what? If we, humanity as a whole, decide to stick with this trend then would we not be driving ourselves to extinction? Which makes me ask: is humanity capable of something so horrible? Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, recently said "today...we see a form of selfishness. We see that some people do not want to have a child. Sometimes they have one. and that's it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people...