(April 3, 2014 at 12:49 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 3, 2014 at 8:03 am)Esquilax Wrote: Which leads to a follow up question: why beat around the bush? Why not just install the lower birth rate from the beginning and skip the unspeakable agony and death that diseases have caused all life on earth?
The lower birth rate propensity is built in. It just doesn't kick in until it's needed. Natural population control is a fact of nature.
I would call you a fantasist. Are you happy or unhappy with reality?
I think he was talking about employing less brutal population control strategies. Come on frodo stop pretending not to understand things which are THAT simple.