I think there is plenty of room to argue at a policy level about incentivizing having children or not. I personally do think we should do more to make it easier but in some way that also encourages strong family formation.
The problem I have is people using it as a tool for judgement of individuals. The pronatalist camp has a clear goal of trying to shift the zeitgeist to their personal views and I reject that much like I reject the constant attempts of the various religious tribes to shift culture to favor their particular idiosyncratic ideals.
I don't disagree that there should be choice, and that the argument as you presented it (aggressive pronatalis) is junk.
But there is room to thi k that there are good arguments for either side and that there are values at play, not just individual preferences.
This would be claiming that the arguments would be more analogous to questions about the morality of justice.
I think there is plenty of room to argue at a policy level about incentivizing having children or not. I personally do think we should do more to make it easier but in some way that also encourages strong family formation.
The problem I have is people using it as a tool for judgement of individuals. The pronatalist camp has a clear goal of trying to shift the zeitgeist to their personal views and I reject that much like I reject the constant attempts of the various religious tribes to shift culture to favor their particular idiosyncratic ideals.