I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people talk of any slowdown in human population growth in fearful terms.

The problem is that the people with the strongest and least flexible religious views are precisely those who deny that they are religious.

No, we're not.

And outnumbering rats is bad because...?

Because we consider them a plague just be their sheer number (aka how easy they reproduce)

If your species outnumber what your species consider a plague, there is a high chance that your species it's the bigger plague.

I mean, we have at times considered rats to be part of a literal plague, or in certain contexts where there are vast numbers of them, they've been called a plague metaphorically. But rats in general are not a plague in the context of the whole world, so for a number of reasons this doesn't follow.

That's a reason why we should be happy that we outnumber them, not a reason for why we should want there to be fewer of us.

Nobody cares about the absolute number of rats. We care about the inconveniences they cause us.

The inconveniences that our own population high count cause to ourselves includes things like global warming, which we all agree is a huge inconvenience, so even by your own definition we are a plague.

I have not provided any definition of "a plague", so no, we're not.

Oh you are that kind of discusser, a good faith attempt at discussing would have included a definition for plague in your comment, if the heavily implied one that it must be a "damaging" was not the right one (or just not answer at all if don't want to bother keeping the discussion)

"If you were arguing in good faith, you would have defined the term that I brought up and didn't define and which you didn't use, and regarding which I then falsely attributed a definition to you"

Mmmmmmh...

Personally, I dislike rats enough that I'm very happy they don't outnumber us.