But you are not listening, Alan. Those people would not be alive without
> increased output of grains and other foodstuffs. The population increased
> from 2 billion to 6.6 billion from 1900 to 2010. World grain output rose
> from 400 million tons in 1900 to 1.9 billion tons in 1998 - without that,
> those 4.6 billion would either have starved, or never been born.
>
> When I said that they had better lives than they would have without
> increased productivity in agriculture, I was taking it as read that it is
> better to be alive than dead. Is it really your position that people would
> have been better off not being born?
>
I trust, then, that you're adamantly pro-life?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."