Thread by @DavidHundeyin

Before chasing recreational space travel, humanity needs to disrupt childbirth with technology. The current process of human procreation is inefficient and illogical.

Every delivery is a death risk to the mother and procreation happens the worst possible way - impulsively.

Currently, any 14 year-old high schooler and her male classmate can accidentally become parents through an unplanned and impulsive act, which results in significant difficulties for them and for the new life, as well as negative externalities for their environment.

Sex - a recreational act - should not logically be the means by which humanity reproduces itself. The process of reproduction in an environmentally conscious world of the future must be controlled and intentional - the two things sex absolutely is not.

The random and impossible-to-plan nature of human sexual intercourse is in my opinion why the world's poorer areas consistently display the illogical behaviour of having too many children which worsens their poverty.

Sex needs to be divorced from procreation for humanity's sake.

If intercourse did not result in pregnancy, but procreation was carried out in a controlled synthetic environment with a suitable fee relevant to the economic indices of that area, half of humanity's poverty problem would disappear.

Women would also benefit greatly.

Currently, if a woman suffers rape, she can end up pregnant with a rapist's child which she then has to make the traumatic decision to keep or to terminate.

Why in 2020, must a woman's body act as a baby manufacturing facility, regardless of her opinion about it?

This sort of evolutionary improvisation made sense when we had just discovered fire and spent much of our time running from hungry jaguars in the Rift Valley.

This is 2020. We don't live in that world anymore. Why is our procreation still stuck there?

The technology exists...
bbc.com/news/av/health…