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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
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