But perhaps most conspicuously absent from both precautionary and proactionary thinking is the old welfare-state ideal – that we might procreate at will in a world where our offspring are assured a secure existence. For all of their substantial disagreements, both sides dismiss this prospect as a twentieth-century fantasy that was only temporarily realized in Northern Europe for a few decades after World War II.
但或许预防性和主动性理念中最明显的共同空白处则是那种旧有的福利国家理想——无论我们繁衍多少后代都能够确保其安稳生存的世界。而无论在其他方面的分歧有多大，双方都将这一愿景否定为一个只在二战结束后几十年间于北欧短暂实现过的21世纪童话。