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A stipulation isn't a fallacy; it's a point agreed to in advance, usually as a premise conceded to anyone who might otherwise take up an objection. I had decided to take a pass on being too blunt about your assumption of things that just aren't so. My mom did family daycare for 20 years, and...

There are always exceptions. Acknowledging them up front and stressing that they are exceptions frames the discussion so there's no nonsense about "Aha! You said 'all' - or 'none' - and I found an exception", or where on the spectrum of "most/many/some/few" things fit. If you're reduced to...

One thing could be a straightforward public education campaign. After mid-30s, women's fertility (already dropping) starts to drop off rapidly. After mid-30s, quality of men's "contribution" deteriorates (genetically). People will go to a lot of effort to give their children advantages, when...

Trying to improve civic engagement is one side of the problem. The other side would be to stop degrading civic engagement. Basically, whenever governments step in to take up a role filled by voluntary associations, the voluntary associations wither.

As with everything we need to do, all it takes is money.

Separating pre-school care from education, kids aren't commodities. Childcare is a service to parents and children. For whatever reason - the reasons don't matter - parents have to work, and the children can't be left unattended for long periods. Stipulating that there may be specific...

Constant popular vote whinging is pointless. The political structure agreed to was the compromise necessary to get the parties to agree to form the US in the first place. Everyone understood the population imbalances among the colonies. They probably spent more time deliberating and debating...

It's past winter. People can manage in the wilderness if they have to. You just remain still enough for a carpet of black flies and mosquitoes to settle, and you'll be warm enough to survive the night.

Are you referring to child care when you refer to "commoditization"?

Being a centrist is the outcome of particular ideals and acting on them, not an accident of vacillation.

Food supply hasn't been degraded by the consequences of ill-conceived heavy-handed government meddling yet, but they're working on it.

Pro-natalism encompasses policies that are expected to motivate people to have children. Whether or not the policies are to the benefit of the children would be a different -ism.

“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

The biggest vote-killer issue I've ever seen, I think. Some of them are very mad. They'll settle down with time, but the WH isn't going to be able to convince any experienced political observers that this is about anything more than placating a few voters on the extreme left and among pockets...

Doesn't help the countries losing people. If demographic shrinkage is going to be a problem, it'll be an international security (as in, avoidance of conflict) problem. We need solutions that don't involve robbing other countries of their population, and particularly skilled parts of their...

Probably because they're doing things they want to do, rather than things that will make a favourable impression on voters who can be moved. Some of the things they do to suit themselves are pissing voters - including independents and some Democrats - off. The latest one is Biden's announced...

Maybe someone just alleged it was weed? It could have been catnip, dried banana peel, Carl Zappa's used gym sock.

There's a (somewhat loose) definition; it exists in political and religious flavours, the latter of which judging by the examples offered doesn't require a bunch of family support policies. The limited version is simply to be in favour of large families. It doesn't really have anything to do...

Where is the universally accepted definition of "pro-natalist"?

You don't get to dictate what the position is of people with whom you disagree. Being against abortion is a stand-alone position about one particular thing. "Pro-life" is a term of art - either you acknowledge its limited and particular meaning in that particular debate, or you are arguing...