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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Society does not need more children but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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