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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real talk. 3 is enough. Nobody needs 4 kids these days. Kids don’t die in infancy and early childhood the way they used to.[/quote]

Eh.  Probably some people should have as many kids as they can handle, and some people shouldn’t have kids at all.  
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That bears no relationship to my comment. [/quote]
You were discussing number of children, correct?! That poster replied discussing number of kids. Not sure what the heck you mean. 
Nobody “needs” any kids. Nobody needs 3...why is that your arbitrary number?[/quote]

It’s not arbitrary. It’s what OP has and it’s enough. [/quote]

How do you know?  Maybe she is a wonderful parent and should have eight kids.  Maybe your kids are the ones who aren’t worth the strain on the environment.  How could you possibly know?  [/quote]

I’m not saying she isn’t a good mom. I’m saying there’s no way to justify adding more people when she already ADDED 3! By any metric she has contributed to the human race and can stop now. [/quote]

The thing is, it’s entirely likely that she is a better mom than you are, or that she and her husband are better at raising kids into adulthood than you are.  I mean, maybe they aren’t, but you don’t really know.  Assuming that they are, wouldn’t it make sense that they should have more kids, and you should have none?
I understand what you are saying about the environmental impact, and it’s true that across a population we shouldn’t do more than reproduce ourselves, but it doesn’t make sense to reduce that down to individual families.  There is absolutely no reason that children have to be evenly distributed among households.

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