

Culling the human population:
#1
Posted 14 January 2010 - 04:52 PM
http://www.bibliotec...ol_depopu18.htm
Top Scientist Advocates Mass Culling 90% Of Human Population
H'm . . . whom should we start with? Republicans? Fox News? People who watch cartoons?
#2
Posted 14 January 2010 - 04:57 PM
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#3
Posted 14 January 2010 - 04:59 PM
#4
Posted 14 January 2010 - 05:48 PM
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#5
Posted 14 January 2010 - 07:09 PM
I dunno. This sort of...way of thinking...I mean, eugenics is something many countries in the world have done, from the USA to Japan to the most famous case of Hitler, but this sort of thing goes way beyond that.
On one hand, he's right. The human species is incredibly overpopulated. on the other hand, he's dead wrong, because, well, I think that is really obvious.
On a third hand, I tend to romanticize that sort of fiction. Post apocalypse, last man on earth sort of greatly reduced population where people start over somehow.
But that's fiction.
I might hate a great deal of people, and am annoyed with even more, and might joke about it but I do not wish death on anyone. And I think it's one thing to think about it and another to call for it, to the point of the specificity of the ebola virus (which would be a freaking awful way to go).
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#6
Posted 14 January 2010 - 07:19 PM
#7
Posted 14 January 2010 - 11:48 PM

- Robert A. Heinlein
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - RAH
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#8
Posted 14 January 2010 - 11:49 PM
They tend to kill themselves off, as long as modern medicine doesn't interfere.
I look at death as the small print on your birth certificate. We have been killing ourselves off with wars and poor judgment since the dawn of the human race on this planet.
The solution to culling the herd...China did a good job, couples where only allowed to have one child, the male child supports the parents in their old age, so the government had to advertise with billboards that women where good too.
Too many female fetuses where aborted. Now they have herds of "Little Emperors " roaming the country side looking for a mate. I've run into a few that have immigrated to Canada looking for brides.
(This is a good thing, we need more people in Canada, no shortage of leg room up here.)
The solution to culling the herd...education. That will do it. Educated people have less children it's a fact.
Once we all have a quantitative education we will cull our numbers naturally.

Edited by D.Rabbit, 14 January 2010 - 11:55 PM.
#9
Posted 14 January 2010 - 11:51 PM

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#10
Posted 15 January 2010 - 03:18 PM
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#11
Posted 15 January 2010 - 07:29 PM
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#12
Posted 17 January 2010 - 04:40 PM
I figure things are rolling along without our help. The fact that China's birthrate is in the negative figures is hopeful, too.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. - RAH
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. - RAH
#13
Posted 17 January 2010 - 06:30 PM
Which, as Rhea pointed out, is hopeful. It would be cool to get a balance in population where the same number of people die that are born. I think a stable population could be interesting to see in terms of what it would do to economies, consumerism, inflation, etc. etc.
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#14
Posted 18 January 2010 - 06:28 PM
Cybersnark, on Jan 15 2010, 12:19 AM, said:
#15
Posted 13 July 2010 - 04:12 PM
Rhea, on 14 January 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

Ding-Ding! We have a winner. If everyone who hates other people, and I don't mean personal grudges, I mean people who just hate other people in general. The ones who think other people should die to make room, well, THEY should kill themselves. That way they'd make the room they think we so desperately need and save mother Earth some stress. Besides, they seem to hate it here so much that they think it'd be great if a ton of people dropped dead. or were weeded out.
The bonus for the rest of us, we'd be spared their complaining. Won't happen though, they don't have that much self awareness, they are so impressed with their own intellect they think it's everyone else who should have to die.
Edited by LiberalBob, 13 July 2010 - 04:15 PM.
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