Rory Stewart et al are straightforwardly people who think we all shouldn't exist, or at least that we should simply stop trying to exist.
He's a degrowther (whether literally or implicitly). We have to ignore people like that.
Anyone who tells you to not start a family, to not have kids, to not save for the future, to fix the problems of your society by inviting in people of an other society, at replacements rates, simply must be ignored.
A key distinction that needs to be made is there is a difference between an order of love and an order of conflict.
There is a common saying in the Middle East (apparently), "Me against my brother; my brother and me against my cousin; my cousin and me against an outsider."
This is NOT the same as "my family, first, my extended family second, my community third, etc."
Former assumes conflict and backstabbing. The other is an appropriately ordered hierarchy of responsibility that aligns with the inherent hierarchy of proximity.
I know my family and have access to them, and so not only am I responsible for them, I also am best suited to know their needs.
This is critically different from the expectation that my brother and me will try to f over my cousin, rather than simply, not be as responsible for his well-being.
Rory Stewart et al are straightforwardly people who think we all shouldn't exist, or at least that we should simply stop trying to exist.
He's a degrowther (whether literally or implicitly). We have to ignore people like that.
Anyone who tells you to not start a family, to not have kids, to not save for the future, to fix the problems of your society by inviting in people of an other society, at replacements rates, simply must be ignored.
A key distinction that needs to be made is there is a difference between an order of love and an order of conflict.
There is a common saying in the Middle East (apparently), "Me against my brother; my brother and me against my cousin; my cousin and me against an outsider."
This is NOT the same as "my family, first, my extended family second, my community third, etc."
Former assumes conflict and backstabbing. The other is an appropriately ordered hierarchy of responsibility that aligns with the inherent hierarchy of proximity.
I know my family and have access to them, and so not only am I responsible for them, I also am best suited to know their needs.
This is critically different from the expectation that my brother and me will try to f over my cousin, rather than simply, not be as responsible for his well-being.