[Is increase of the population a moral value? [author's transl)]

There is no complementary action of the partial competition between economic, demographic and rational factors in free capitalistic societies. Natural increase of the population means an increase of economic and cultural vitality for a state but can also mean a weakening. Increase of the population is in itself no normal value. Modern technology has forced man into a new life cycle by confronting him with ecologic, economic, and demographic limits to growth. Man reacts by decreasing the birth rate or by discontinuing procreation completely. The responsibility for the reproductive behavior can only be taken over by the state as long as this responsibility is in agreement with the private interest of the person. Demographic and social politics should nd. In questions of reproductive behaviour the decision of the individual and his possibility for individual action should be supreme.