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nope
but then I think the novel Brave New World got procreation right too, so there's that (imagine something practical being deemed "dystopian" ... yep, I'm definitely in the radical minority here ... but never again would you ever hear of concepts like abortion, because of the cascade of benefits from that sustainable model of society)
this is where the human propensity for emotional attachment to things overriding reason / logic / rational thinking / common sense becomes a flaw rather than something to appreciate
I don't think literally any whim under the sun should be a fundamental human / individual "right" either, because like it or not, we do share this one planet with each other ... and if you just take 30 seconds to think about it logically, everyone (never mind other species) has a better chance of having a higher quality of life if there are only 500 million to 1 billion people on Earth (which is the way it was before the Industrial Revolution, for many centuries / millennia), instead of 8 billion and climbing ... resources are finite
nobody likes being told "no" (and to that end will often wear unthinking, petulant defiance for its own sake as a badge of honor) but that's also a sign that our species has not yet evolved (or we could stop navel-gazing for 5 minutes to see the bigger picture, every single time, without anyone having to prod us)
but then I think the novel Brave New World got procreation right too, so there's that (imagine something practical being deemed "dystopian" ... yep, I'm definitely in the radical minority here ... but never again would you ever hear of concepts like abortion, because of the cascade of benefits from that sustainable model of society)
this is where the human propensity for emotional attachment to things overriding reason / logic / rational thinking / common sense becomes a flaw rather than something to appreciate
I don't think literally any whim under the sun should be a fundamental human / individual "right" either, because like it or not, we do share this one planet with each other ... and if you just take 30 seconds to think about it logically, everyone (never mind other species) has a better chance of having a higher quality of life if there are only 500 million to 1 billion people on Earth (which is the way it was before the Industrial Revolution, for many centuries / millennia), instead of 8 billion and climbing ... resources are finite
nobody likes being told "no" (and to that end will often wear unthinking, petulant defiance for its own sake as a badge of honor) but that's also a sign that our species has not yet evolved (or we could stop navel-gazing for 5 minutes to see the bigger picture, every single time, without anyone having to prod us)