There were more Ethiopians born this year than Americans. More Yemenis born than Russians. More Somalians born than Japanese. More Zambians born than Germans. More Malawians born than British or French. More Rwandans born than Italians or Canadians. More Cambodians born than Spaniards. More North Koreans born than Australians. More Haitians born than South Koreans. More Mauritanians born than Dutch. More Palestinians born than Taiwanese.
Evil is effortlessly overtaking good. Afghanistan has graced the world with another 1.5 million children, the reported least happy place on Earth. That's more than France and Germany's births combined. (And how many of those French and German births are to actual French and Germans?)
Utilitarianism is very simple math. Each human individual, born anywhere in the world, can either experience happiness or misery, becoming net positive utility or net negative utility, over the course of their life. All the children in the world are being born into pits of suffering, hellholes that everyone hates and everyone wants to leave. Practically nobody is being born into well-run, happy, prosperous and safe places like the Netherlands. So we are creating, ex nihilo, hell on Earth, for no reason at all. We could restrict children to places where children could reasonably expect to be happy. Instead we live in an inverted world, where we specifically have as many children as possible in the places least hospitable for new life.
It bothers me that politics are so often about meaningless things, while matters of actual importance are completely ignored. The future of the world is clearly careening into the worst possible nightmare scenario, and no one gives a hoot. Meanwhile we discuss for months whether the White House should have a new lavish ball room for state dinners or not.
This is called whistling past the graveyard.
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