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That's not the natural state of the world, neither for humans nor for most mammals. Such a situation is fundamentally, genetically, abnormal.



I certainly agree that voluntarily and intentionally having children, raising them to age 5 then selling them is not a normal state of affairs.

But if you interpret the "natural state of the world" to include loving parents, but not decent medical or agricultural technology, life can be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" in spite of parents' love. Or even "formidably cruel".




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