Human Race: Your Numbers Up

[Violet]

The population issue that Sae brought up - I actually agree with. We desperately need population controls and I would be the first to volunteer for a vasectomy if thats what it takes. But that does not fix the problems we already have and Sae's willingness to kill off people she doesn't care about is disturbing because it is that exact mindset that is going to bring the world to a violent end. If everybody wants everybody else to die except for them - where is that going to get us. Endless war.

I do understand the concept of, "thinning the herd", but I don't think she would be so cavalier if it was her house and her friends of whom the world decided to "thin".

I think you misunderstand me... I am a very selfcentered individual. I'll see all of humanity and this entire planet destroyed before my untimely death.

In my mind, the world is the herd. There is no difficulty for me in wondering who gets to be thinned... not that anyone needed to decide this anyway. The lucky will pull through. Or perhaps it is that they are unlucky. I'm never sure which

Oh, and I favor endless war. Just not with everyone at the same time

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Which few billion, your few billion or their few billion, or any few billion. But as others, and now myself, have said, would this be such a bad thing? Ofcourse it would be bad. But the survival of the human species needs this to happen. If we are to make it to the next level, hard decisions must be made, or hard things will happen automatically.
We can do it in less devastating/destructive manner ourselves, or we can wait and see what happens. Sadly, I think we are going to wait until it happens.

The few billion that would least affect me, of course. We are going to wait until it happens... but not necessarily in all countries at the same time or to the same extent

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The strange thing is, people like Sae and many others don't see any immediate threat and therefore don't really care whether or not changes are made. But that's just it ... if you were told that your children were going to suffer and possibly die and the world would come to an end - wouldn't you, despite your beliefs, stop breeding for the chance at living??? Yes, we would have to consider it a very drastic worldwide emergency effort just as if we were forced to hide underground from a planetary killer such as an asteroid, but most everyone would be willing to do it in order to live.

I see much more immediate threats that require much more of my attention. Should the world be so blissful that this would be at the top of my priorities, this is not a discussion we would be having.

I hate hassles... I'm finally working out my hormone replacements and whatnot. Turns out sex and what random strangers see me to be is more important to me than the survival of our species

Anyway, I have done my part in this as I see it: I have not had children and will not have children.