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College graduate is just as difficult in the early stage. But needs additional 20 years of expensive fermentation.

This shouldn't be downvoted, because its part of the argument. eg, still-born babies tend to have lots of emotional reprecussions. But the OP's point is that doesn;t make much sense. eg, the human female is programmed to reproduce every 28 days or whatever... but herein lies the heart of the issue...biology, rationality, and emotion, ane even culture are all (or may be) at cross purposes when it comes to this situation.

> This shouldn't be down voted,

I at least down voted it because, the comment it was quoting from was supposed to be a "purely economic argument" and it acknowledged that most argument come from an emotional view point.

There are valid points that go a long the lines of the comment and your follow ups starts to add them but:

> Someone has never had a baby.

Does not add that detail or those arguments.

I didn't care too much for the comment because it was smug superiority.

Yeah, some people even do it on accident.