Thursday, May 25, 2006
Consciousness of being beloved
Plunging birth rates may have more to do with lack of faith in the future of one’s country than anything else, says this report.
No one knows. But by not having children, people are voting against the future—their countries’ and, perhaps, their own. It is easy to imagine the sacrifices and disappointments of raising children. It is hard, try as people might, to imagine the intense joys and selfish pleasures. People ignore Adam Smith’s keen insight: “[The] chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved.”
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