It's called having aligned interests. If you have kids, you have an inherent bias towards having a long term stable and successful country. If you don't have kids, you might not give a shit what happens in the long term because you won't be around for it.
A childless person can still serve as a parental figure to or foster parent of others and leave behind an enduring legacy regardless. It's more accurate to say a selfish person makes a poor leader while a selfless one makes an awesome leader. Also it matters more what spiritual quality of kids you raise over the physical quantity of them.
Counterpoint, you can easily determine whether or not someone has children. Determinating whether or not someone is truly selfish is pretty much impossible with any certainty.
True, it's not with 100% certainty; people are complicated beings. That why I said "more accurate". However, some people could be really good at hiding that they have kids from other people. Example: Bob's in a relationship (or married) with no kids...but Bob has a secret family with kids with another lover (or spouse) on the side.
It's called having aligned interests. If you have kids, you have an inherent bias towards having a long term stable and successful country. If you don't have kids, you might not give a shit what happens in the long term because you won't be around for it.
A childless person can still serve as a parental figure to or foster parent of others and leave behind an enduring legacy regardless. It's more accurate to say a selfish person makes a poor leader while a selfless one makes an awesome leader. Also it matters more what spiritual quality of kids you raise over the physical quantity of them.
Counterpoint, you can easily determine whether or not someone has children. Determinating whether or not someone is truly selfish is pretty much impossible with any certainty.
True, it's not with 100% certainty; people are complicated beings. That why I said "more accurate". However, some people could be really good at hiding that they have kids from other people. Example: Bob's in a relationship (or married) with no kids...but Bob has a secret family with kids with another lover (or spouse) on the side.