OFF TOPIC THREAD: Where derailing the thread is impossible!
because if there's one thing Earth needs right now it's more people!wiivn wrote:By the time I wrote this, approximately 1500+ babies were born! That's crazy. Felt like I'm wasting my time while others are increasing the population of Earth.
Do your race proud and father dozens of children with different mothers, none of which you can support!
What's more surprising is Nigeria, so many people...
What you really need, not what you think you ought to want.
People in countries with inflating birth rates usually have little option or knowledge of the consequences of having more and more offspring. It's been a traditional way to combat high infant mortality rates and ensure the future of the family farm, but as medicine has developed and all the children suddenly survive only to suffer from malnourishment, this behaviour only causes more bad than good.
Cases like these are especially interesting but unfortunate:
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060213/ ... 213-3.html
The research: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/inf ... ed.0030087
Cases like these are especially interesting but unfortunate:
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060213/ ... 213-3.html
The research: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/inf ... ed.0030087
"All those thousands upon thousands of junk foods made for me on the various planets I explored make me wonder how I'm still alive."
Kids being dead is better than kids being malnourished. I understand.Grimson wrote:People in countries with inflating birth rates usually have little option or knowledge of the consequences of having more and more offspring. It's been a traditional way to combat high infant mortality rates and ensure the future of the family farm, but as medicine has developed and all the children suddenly survive only to suffer from malnourishment, this behaviour only causes more bad than good.
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Cobalt wrote:Contraception is pre-murder, abortion is post-murder. Your choice for population control is Abstinence or murder. One of these answers does not have deadly consequences.
"All those thousands upon thousands of junk foods made for me on the various planets I explored make me wonder how I'm still alive."
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We must kill all the overpopulating brown people (And maybe some of the yellow ones) this is far easier than actually curbing our consumption despite the fact that we consume far more resources.
How precisely would you enforce contraception? I think it's a great idea in itself since it avoids a lot of abortion. (And MAN is there a lot of abortion. Take a guess at how many per year, then google it.)Paramultart wrote:I think Cobalt is joking. Contraception should be not only encouraged, but free and possibly enforced. I have tried being liberal and keeping quiet about my views on abortion, but let's just say I don't think to highly of it.
What you really need, not what you think you ought to want.