Similarly, people who don’t have children and don’t realistically hope for extreme longevity have a counterproductive voice in politics. I’d trust intelligent+loving (high investment) grandparents to invest wisely in the future before I’d trust an environmentalist (by way of illustrating the progeny-dependent long-term ‘stakes in the game’ criteria, not to derail us into boring political territory; similarly, uninvolved sires don’t get any credibility).
Similarly, people who don’t have children and don’t realistically hope for extreme longevity have a counterproductive voice in politics. I’d trust intelligent+loving (high investment) grandparents to invest wisely in the future before I’d trust an environmentalist (by way of illustrating the progeny-dependent long-term ‘stakes in the game’ criteria, not to derail us into boring political territory; similarly, uninvolved sires don’t get any credibility).