What are we afraid of?

Most people would argue that contraception is rational. That it is reasonable to contracept. On some level that is correct. Since only humans are rational and reasonable and only humans contracept, then the logic does follow. But why do we contracept? Contraception is really all about fear. We contracept because we have misused our reason and applied it while rooted in fear.

Animals don't contracept. Animals don't fear childbirth. Why? Because there is actually nothing inherently fearful in bringing about new life. Animals live by instinct and learned behavior. They are not rational. They don't reason out what the caused that twig to snap. They look up in fear and wait until the moment passes or the threat appears. They don't send out the deer network to say, "false alarm. It was a tree falling." That requires reason.

We fear childbirth because we can anticipate pain. Animals don't anticipate like humans. They have instincts and they learn from past experience. They do not, however, associate sex with later childbirth. It is because we know that sex makes babies that we contracept. It is because we are rational and can draw conclusions that we contracept.

But then why do I make the bold assertion that contraception is all about fear? Simply put, because animals don't contracept. They do not fear new life. Because there is nothing inherent to fear in new life! There is no real threat. The rabbit buck doesn't say, "How I am going to work hard enough to feed all these mouths?" The rabbit doe doesn't say, "But all these bunnies need a good quality education." They just do what they do. Then Nature provides.

I mean if it were really necessary to contracept then bunnies would be first in line! The does ovulate every time they have sex. The life expectancy of a baby bunny is fairly short. And they are the only ones who can be rightly accused of over-population! (Of course they have to populate so much because they are prey to so many animals. That is why they ovulate every time they have sex.)

Sex makes babies. Babies are a good thing. Without babies we are done...right now. One generation and we are gone. Rational thought says, "grow, expand." Fear says "retreat." Contraception is about fear, not reason. Truly, contraception is completely irrational.