500% More Unborn Children Agree -

Right-to-Lifers Can Kiss My Ass

Right-to-Lifers argue that all babies are born "for the glory of God." Thus, more babies = more glory. Let's have a little mathematical look-see.

If humankind survives its current set of dangers and our descendants conclude that a world population of around one billion is a reasonable figure, then there are no foreseeable reasons why our species cannot last another million years, thus achieving the average species life span enjoyed to date on this planet. Mathematically, this will yield one billion times one million person years, a total of 10¹⁵.

If, on the other hand, we allow population to increase willy nilly "for the glory of God" in accordance with the precepts of Right-to-Lifers to 20 billion, then it is doubtful that our species would survive resultant frequent knocks on its collective door from the Biblical boogiemen, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. As I recall, these are War, Famine, Pestilence and Anyone From The Goddam Kennedy Family, because judging by the way they handle PT boats, Oldsmobiles and small airplanes, just imagine what they could do with one of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. Given unchecked population growth and predictable resultant pressures, it is doubtful that humankind could survive for more than an optimistic estimate of ten thousand years, thus achieving only twenty billion times ten thousand person years, or, two times 10¹⁴. Oh yes, quality of life would be exponentially worse for our descendants and every other species on Earth under overpopulated circumstances as well, and there's not much glory for a deity in all of Creation being utterly miserable.

In other words, if we exercise restraint, then the total number of human beings who will have trodden this Earth could be at least five times greater than it would be if we allowed populations to run away with us. So who do you think likes people more and has humankind's best interests at heart, people like me, or the Bible-thumping, bloodthirsty, slack-jawed, slope-browed savages who wave placards, distribute pamphlets and swap cookie recipes while they intentionally bring women who have had to make the most difficult decision of their lives closer to madness and suicide outside abortion clinics?

As a tangent addressing the knee-jerk reaction this article will elicit, a lot of people grant privilege to anyone who is acting in accordance with anyone's interpretation of the wishes of a deity, that it is always permissible to carry and use instruments of torture in one hand as long as there's a Bible in the other. I think this is the sort of trait that can be recognized as an unthinking, superstitious personal character flaw, one which can, with thought and self-discipline, be suppressed, superceded and eradicated.