freediver wrote on Jul 4
th, 2010 at 2:19pm:
gizmo_2655 wrote on Jul 4
th, 2010 at 11:39am:
freediver wrote on Jul 4
th, 2010 at 10:38am:
Quote:(haven't worked out the boxes yet)
Use this:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Buttons/English/quote.png Quote:No I don't consider that it should be a 'personal choice of the individual, when they are considering their own quality of life'
I feel that humans are much more important than lower life forms, like 'animals'.....
You seem to have missed the point there gizmo.
Oh, and what is the point then??
Advocating suicide of a percentage of the human race, simply to avoid 'endangering' the environment and reducing reliance on animal and fish food sources.... Does that sound reasonable to you??
There are plenty of ways to control population without killing or encouraging suicide. China has achieved something drastic. It is happening in most western countries without any effort at all. In fact our government is handing out huge sums of money to encourage the birth rate. Cutting that handout would achieve a real reduction and would hardly be draconian. Many of the other methods - eg education, women's rights, wealth, are good ideas in their own right.
Well I can think of 4 population control methods of the top of my head.
Of course all have drawbacks...
There's the ZPG method, like China is using....the drawback is, you end up with an aging population, and no one to take the jobs as people retire/die.....which is, incidentally the reason that the Gov is paying people HERE to have children..And of course, it would only work on a global basis if you had a global government...(New World Order, anyone?)
Then there's low effect contraceptives in food, reduces the birth rate..but there again, you run the risk of losing scientific and/or technological skills...because there's no guarantee that the people with high IQ would be among the group immune to the contraception
The 3rd method is hope for a 'death cult'....in which 1/2 or 3/4 of the population become altruistic enough to commit suicide to save the race.....Given that the survival instinct is one of the strongest human drives.....that's not too likely (although it might work out with the 'cult' members bumping of people THEY see as useless)
And lastly...a lottery draw of the whole human population, to decide who gets 'sacrificed' to racial survival....
Of course you could use the 'Logan's Run' method.......and everyone dies at age 30...and is 'reborn'???