The question isn't "what's more beneficial to society" it's "why should we care about what's beneficial to a society that doesn't seem to care about people anyway".

If we cared about our society, we wouldn't be as corrupt and as blind to crime. We would practice our beliefs and principles, not use them to hit others on the head whit them while doing the opposite. We would work together to solve problems, not accuse one another while doing nothing. We would work on elevating all levels of society, not trow them under the bus for our small personal benefits.

There are many ways our society failed us, it's only fair we failed it back. All the talk about society and values and what's right is hollow rehearsed virtue signaling and purely performative in nature. A society with crumbling school and daycare systems, over indebted hospitals, barely functional social care, that turns a blind eye on domestic violence and celebrates criminals doesn't really care about the kids. We have a government that "endorses fertility politics" and then halts the National children's hospital indefinitely, cuts funding for disabled children, stops ordering meds for rare child diseases so their "partners" can steal public funds through the medical supply chain, fixes reconstruction projects in favor of their friends who then fumble construction on homes and schools, pretends heavy abuses in child centers doesn't exist etc. etc.

In short - fuck the society. If we were any good at it, would would survive. I'm not producing the next generation of taxpayers and working myself into an early grave so their kids can keep stealing my money.