Christianity teaches many things that our culture finds controversial, but the Golden Rule generally isn't one of them. That's the statement, “Do to others as you would like them do to you.”
Whether Christian or not, the vast majority of people would accept this as a good rule of thumb when deciding how to live among others. So we ought to reflect on the fact that we in the West are deliberately failing to pursue the Golden Rule's most fundamental expression: having children. Refusing to have a family is the Platonic ideal of selfishness.
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