Even when the cats are left out of it, alas, the problem of weirdness is a chronic one for pro-natalists.
This is not to concede that it is actually weird to care about the birthrate: Children are good, human beings are good, a prosperous future for the human race is good, and it’s absurd not to care about looming depopulation and all the social and economic problems that come trailing in its wake.
Future generations (to the extent that they exist!)
will find it much, much stranger that so many people barely noticed this issue or dismissed it than that a Republican vice-presidential candidate once floated giving children political representation through their parents.
But if you are a pro-natalist, you still have to understand the reasons an aura of weirdness hangs over the idea.
Persons:
Vance, —
Organizations:
Democratic, Trump, Republican
Locations:
United States