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Okay so I've been thinking about the population of the world and I think it is a bit of a problem and its only going to get worse since the earth has only so much resources.
I am not implying that we should be like Hitler and get rid of all the weak, the old, and the handicapped. I think that instead of killing people that already exist(which is a insane idea), we should try to prevent people from getting born and I don't mean abortions. What I mean is that we need to have and enforce laws restricting the number of children each mother can give birth to. If you look on the interner or in an almanac, you will find that some countries have a average rate of 6 or 8 children per mother. Now thats a problem. So my question is how can we control the world population? |
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enforcing laws is already hard enough as it is...i dont think we need more laws prohibiting people from having kids, instead we should be like Hitler and kill off all the weak and useless
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05-16-2008, 12:52 PM | #3 |
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Define "we". Do you meen the state? The people themselves?
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05-16-2008, 01:00 PM | #4 |
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Humans destroyed natural selection however our society couldn't handle it. IMO we should all go back to living off the land with no docters and farm but this won't happen lol.
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No single country can control the WORLD population. The United States tries to protect the freedom for all people and to spread democracy, not take away the basic rights of reproduction. Telling Brazil to stop having kids is absurd.
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05-16-2008, 01:12 PM | #7 |
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We should try to promote things that kill people. Such as war, extreme sports, and the death penalty.
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Sorry, but you're an idiot.
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05-16-2008, 01:19 PM | #9 |
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This is in a Critical Thinking forum, not a flame-everyone-because-you-don't-like-their-opinion-and-post-things-that-are-off-topic-so-you-can-get-a-higher-post-count
forum. There is a thing called the United Nations. |
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China has laws that only allow a family to have 1 child. Fairly certain it hasn't worked out very well.... has resulted in many newly born girls being killed by the parents or abandoned, as their culture puts almost all of the honor in boys.
Also, the US encourages families to have more children, with all of the welfare programs and food stamps and assistance programs. Not very familiar with any other countries laws though. But, this isn't something that could actually work. And as said... it would have to be some kind of United Nations type treaty agreement or world policy that was adopted. Even then, many countries do not have the resources to enforce something like this... the majority of over-populated countries are closer to 3rd world than 1st world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...al)_per_capita China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and the Philippines are not even in the top100 of Per Capita GDP. Brazil, Russia, and Mexico are over 50. The only countries in the top25 out of the 12 most populated countries are the USA and Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population And those 12 countries make up almost 62% of the world's population. So, even with the birthing laws in place, China still has almost 20% of the world's population and over 1.3 billion people. Quote:
edit: inflames.... there are over 190 countries in the UN. basically, any country worth anything is in the UN.
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Pretty much the entire purpose of the UN in forming after WW2 was to be an active force in preventing WW3. They made the military conquest of countries illegal, and are supposed to ensure that it doesn't happen. Internal strife, civil war, civilian protests none of that is supposed to be the UN's concern (Which is why things like Rwanda happened, and why nothing is being done in Colombia right now) Quote:
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This thread is on very thin ice, as being a topic that doesn't really have much of a purpose for discussion. You can't reconcile freedom and human rights with strict orders controlling what these people can do vis-a-vis their own bodys. A much better question would be "what sorts of things can we do to make it so our population problem isn't actually a problem" |
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UN, in my opinion, is only effective at its hunger and relief scheme. They aren't allowed to raise arms, thus, not so effective in conflict resolution. Also, a huge part of the making of US was because the League of Nations weren't doing so hot with their proposed laws, trying to prevent wars.
Population is a problem and it will forevermore be. You can lack and be overruned by people. Some complain, minorities mostly, that they need more people in their band to preserve culture. Others complain they have too many and attempt to limit birth, China for example. The mortality rate will, perhaps, always, exceed the death rate. Your only realistic hope of ridding the overruned is by a natural disaster, epidemic, or war. Like the earthquake SheeChuan, China last week that killed over 11,000 people, only a calamity of some sort will regulate population so that Death > Birth. |
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An interesting trend is that civilized countries (1st world) have much better (as in not exponential growth) population pyramids and growth rates than 3rd world countries. It seems to me that once poverty and hunger and lack of education are taken care of, the problem would take care of itself and result in less families with 12 kids.
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Try imagine if there was never war, never natrual disasters, no death penalty,etc... The population of the planet would be at astronomical rates. What I meant to say when I said we should promote things like that was that making birth laws is not working and we need to find a alternative solution. |
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Honestly, i Agree with the fact that; There all always people dying everyday, every hour. And Death > Birth.
So it pretty much evens everything out. and if there was to be an overwhelmingly large amounts of birth to occur, good 'ol mother nature will step in and kill a ****load of people. So ironically we should be happy earthquakes happen, and hurricanes and what not. Not saying i want to happen. Just that they help keep population down. dont mean no disrespect.
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Is it ironic that a recent magnitude 8 earthquake in central China has been estimated to have killed 60,000+ people, and a cyclone in Burma (Myanmar) has potentially killed upwards of 80,000 people all in the last week?
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