Unlimited children; If a moral [when practiced by all] makes bad things happen, is it an evil moral?
The other night I was watching ‘the other side’ [a religious debate show], and on it a jewish chap mentioned that he had 15 children, and that there is nothing wrong with it because god wants us to have as many children as we can.
If we all had 15 kids, then the world population would go up 7.5 times I.e. from 6 billion [6,790,062,216] to 45 billion in a single generation!
...Then in the following generation; 337.5 billion! etc, etc.
Estimates according to current trends…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates
Now someone correct me if I am wrong, but the world simply cannot sustain that kind of population. If we all went by that moral and were peaceful etc [also abrahamic philosophy], there would be somewhere near 45 billion people all using up the earths resources and increasing pollution, there would eventually be mass starvation and civilisation would fall to its knees.
1. Maybe you disagree with some of the particulars here, but the basic idea is that we should be responsible in the amount of children we have [like most people are]. People should not have exhaustive amounts of children for ulterior motives be it religion or to get more benefits ~ or any other reason.
2. If a moral denotes such an expansion of the population then that moral is plainly WRONG!
I just wanted to point out no’s 2 because religious people always think they are right and that their religion is according to gods word. So I ask if gods word leads to evil, is that really an ethic a wise god would teach?