To: letters@guardian.co.uk
Re: The positive side to Asia's bias for baby boys
Date: Saturday, 14 December 06

Dear Editors,

In response to the article, "A bias towards boys is unbalancing Asia", I would just like to point out one very positive aspect of Asian's bias for male babies: when they grow up they won't have babies themselves and thus be adding to Asia's already unsustainably large population.

Gender imbalance (usually brought about by large numbers of men being killed off in war) has never been a serious problem in the past, so why should it, albeit in the other direction, be a problem now? It simply requires some social and behavioural adjustments; for example, by allowing polyandry.

It's amazing! Nature tries to help us stabilize or reduce human populations that are becoming (or rather, have already become) too large for our planet to support in the long-term, and stupid know-betters and do-gooders respond by demanding counter measures: immigration into Europe to maintain its naturally declining oversized population, and now putting a stop to Asia's natural bias for male babies.

When mother nature is forced into reducing the population by other, much less pleasant means, the same know-betters and do-gooders will be all snot and tears and unable to comprehend how nature can be so cruel . . . !

We should be deeply embarrassed, calling ourselves Homo sapiens. Homo stupidus is much more like it!

 

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