Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 08:29 AM Tuesday 4/29/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > >> I think that it is clear that nature will restore a balance if >> necessary. If we are indeed over-populated (and I suspect that is the >> case), the balance will be restored through the 4 Horsemen of the >> Apocalypse, in some kind of combination. Whether Ronn will find that >> less offensive I cannot say. >> > > > > There's a vast difference between people dying despite everything > possible at the time being done to save them and some people > channeling E. Scrooge and saying that it would be A Good Thing for > other folks to die and "reduce the surplus population." Or does > IAAMOAC mean that civilized behavior includes throwing other people > under the wheels in order to save themselves? > I don't recognize the acronym you used, but in any case I was talking in terms of restricting reproduction, not practicing euthanasia. If we leave it to the Four Horsemen, I am certain the worst of it will fall on those populations that are poor, and that will hardly look any better. It will take more than just population control, I suspect, but ignoring root causes is no way to solve the problem.
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