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Turbeaux wrote:

I am more boring than ultraenvironmentalistic. You have the right idea about reproduction. I might adopt but creating new children seems extraordinarily unethical in this day and age! Even if they matched my low-impact lifestyle, we only have one Earth not 1.7 or whatever I got.

I can stick with cats. They are less noisy than children and far cleaner than the really young ones. Also, they can be left alone for a couple of days without dying and/or using drugs in your bedroom. Additionally, if you spay and neuter they won't reproduce and create a potentially neverending family line that dirties our planet and sucks it's resources dry. I know that cats are a menace to wildlife but it is not difficult to keep them indoors (perhaps with some closely supervised leashed outdoor time).

That's a good point: adoption is a wonderful thing. I'm absolutely NEVER, EVER against currently-existing people. People are the best thing on the Earth, but I'm biased. It's just that it's possible to have too much of a good thing; even too much of the best thing. Overpopulation is like dieting: you don't have to burn off calories that you never consume to begin with, and you don't have to "figure out" what do to with people who never existed to begin with. And if there were a widespread movement to have zero children or one child, the potential adoptees would probably not have to sit in orphanages and other situations like that for very long, I hope.

Also "yes" to the cats!!! Cats are magic. Dogs are also magic. Animals are wonderful, in general. Except maybe some insects...