Don't demonize infanticide and underage marriage. Understand why they happen.

[CreamCat]

Centuries ago, in japan, the tax was too high to support many children.

There was no effective birth control method. So, parents killed babies. In japan, infanticide was called mabiki(間引き).

Mabiki was a part of tradition until 1930 in japan. Without infanticide, whole family units could have been wiped out. The situation was not very different in other regions.

Young girls were married off and sold off as servants, prostitutes, or geishas. Those options were still better than killing them. Many parents were too poor to wait for second and third sons to become strong enough for farm work. In some regions, girls were killed more often. In some other regions, boys were killed more often. In some regions, babies with disabilities were killed.

Nowadays, in highly industrialzed societies, children are not useful as labor due to increasing factory/AI automation. Birth control is widely available, and there is no need for underage marriage due to economic surplus. Underage marriage is often economically infeasible nowadays. The situation is not much better nowadays because people sell themselves to uninspiring corporate jobs.

It seems to me that whatever option is economically infeasible is demonized. In the past, marrying later in life was demonized. Nowadays, marrying early is demonized. People don't understand why, but they just subconsciously demonize whatever is suboptimal to survival of individual or species. Because it's subconscious, they can justify their demonization with any bullshit reasons. It's as if people demonized in order to avoid understanding.

Edited June 4, 2019 by CreamCat

[Shadowraix]

Leo's video on morality I believe cover demonization and it's mechanism as a whole.