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Anyone who advocates the selective killing of people to cull the herd is a sociopath. However, you must agree that we are all complicit of a sort of de facto culling of the herd via famine, disease and wars.
Let's say somehow we all just suddenly decided to get along. Everyone, everywhere, decided to be sustainable, co-operative, generous and altruistic. Would there still be enough resources for everyone? Would we generate a sustainable amount of waste?
This whole argument should be a non-starter. There is a limit to just about everything. Look at many cities in China and India that are some of the most polluted places on earth. Even if every human was taught the most sustainable practices, their consumption, natural resource usage and waste has consequences.
So, if someone brutally murdered a loved one, you would be ok with incarcerating him/her for his/her entire life? Incarcerating someone for life seems pretty inhumane to me. I mean, is that the reason why that person was put on earth? To be locked up?
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra.
We're at 6.67 billion people on earth today. 24,000 die of starvation daily. How long will it take to bring the 2nd and 3rd world countries into a favorable socio-economic position?
There are two groups of people : One group readily acknowledges and understands over population. The other group is in denial.
One merely has to contemplate the concept of carrying capacity. Your automobile can carry only so many occupants. A given house can only sleep (carry) so many persons. One sandwich can only feed (carry) so many people. Now, we can argue about expanding or increasing or otherwise manipulating any of these systems (automobile, house, sandwich) by jamming a few more passengers into the automobile or a few more people into the house or cutting the sandwich into smaller and smaller pieces. But, here's the acid test: if anyone argues for workarounds, future solutions or any other excuse to increase these or any system, then they are of the second group and in denial.
An idea for helping to reduce the population peacefully would be to offer tax incentives or even monetary rewards for not having children. The more children they produce, the more they pay in taxes. Pay men to have vasectomies. Free birth control to men and women. Incentivise preventative birth control.
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