"That's an awful lot by our standards," and it makes it even weirder that their economy has such awful food on planes, there should be seven times as many people to develop better recipes than that, "but I'm not thinking about the absolute number, I'm thinking about the relative frequencies of alleles in the breeding population and why everybody doesn't already want kids.  I mean, in our world, it's not the case that everybody wants kids, but that's because we're making a conscious effort not to breed ourselves into the... into fictional aliens who really, really want kids."

"That's an awful lot by our standards," and it makes it even weirder that their economy has such awful food on planes, there should be seven times as many people to develop better recipes than that, "but I'm not thinking about the absolute number, I'm thinking about the relative frequencies of alleles in the breeding population, and why everybody doesn't already want kids.  I mean, in our world, it's not the case that everybody wants kids, but that's because we're making a conscious effort not to breed ourselves into the... into fictional aliens who really, really want kids."