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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-03-17 07:10
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Darkboy132 wrote on 2014-03-17 08:03
I DON'T BELIEVE THIS SHIT! Year 2012 didn't end the world as those dumb fucks thought.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-03-17 08:34
Uh... This has nothing to do with the Mayan calender.
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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-03-17 12:28
This is for all you people who sneer at chinese one child policy... SUCK ON THIS!
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Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2014-03-17 13:33
Quote from TLCBonaparte;1207369:
This is for all you people who sneer at chinese one child policy... SUCK ON THIS!
I think it's mostly people sneering at the fact they put the baby in a dumpster if they don't want it. Kinda like teenage mothers in other countries. I'd be good with a no child policy though. Children are terrible.
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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-03-17 15:48
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I think it's mostly people sneering at the fact they put the baby in a dumpster if they don't want it. Kinda like teenage mothers in other countries. I'd be good with a no child policy though. Children are terrible.
Oh please, I hear plenty "It's violate human rights to restrict child birth." pff.
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Odin wrote on 2014-03-17 16:47
That's exactly how we got in this mess though.
Nobody wants to be told they have to do something- and collectively this lack of restraint may very well run humanity out of resources.
And even if one country makes a huge incentive to economize and be efficient, other countries that are emerging markets might not necessarily do the same- because it costs money up front that they don't necessarily have.
Isn't it great? The US made such a huge push to get fuel-efficient cars and energy-efficient infrastructure, and our prices went up anyway because China's demand skyrocketted.
Oh and what the comments say about nukes being rendered useless after 10 years? I don't buy that for a minute. While after 10 years components of them may have broken down, the warhead itself could easily remain perfectly live for well into centuries- Plutonium has an obnoxiously long half life after all, and on detonation they are driven sufficiently super-critical that you would have to put it through a large fraction of its half life before it will no longer produce a nuclear explosion. I'm willing to bet the US is still sitting on nuclear arsenal constructed in the 1970s, which would explode just as easily today as it did back then. The only thing they would have to fix to launch it would be the guidance computer- which would be rather obsolete and hard to use.
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Cynic wrote on 2014-03-17 17:04
Pft. Humanity has always been screwed.
The only question is exactly how long it's going to take before our species bites the dust.
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Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2014-03-17 18:26
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Oh please, I hear plenty "It's violate human rights to restrict child birth." pff.
Where did I say that? I'm perfectly OK with restricting child birth. I even said I would be OK with a no child policy. Even if we don't do that, there are plenty of people who have no business having a child.
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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-03-17 18:53
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Where did I say that? I'm perfectly OK with restricting child birth. I even said I would be OK with a no child policy. Even if we don't do that, there are plenty of people who have no business having a child.
I didn't say you said it. I meant I hear plenty of people say it who are not you lol.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2014-03-17 19:50
It's been on this route for a long time unless if there's going to be some sort of technological miracle.
Such an announcement is about decades late.
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Hanna wrote on 2014-03-18 02:54
Quote from TLCBonaparte;1207369:
This is for all you people who sneer at chinese one child policy... SUCK ON THIS!
Because the Chinese government does not allow the parents to know the sex of the child so they won't get abortions, and girls are "unfavorable", thousands end up abandoned every year, some, in orphanages, others in dumpsters, or ditches.
Childhood obesity has dramatically spiked because of parents spoiling their only child.
You cannot control someone's life, it is unethical
Plus the population control isn't even working SO SUCK ON THAT
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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-03-18 02:57
Quote from Hanna;1207643:
Because the Chinese government does not allow the parents to know the sex of the child so they won't get abortions, and girls are "unfavorable", thousands end up abandoned every year, some, in orphanages, others in dumpsters, or ditches.
Childhood obesity has dramatically spiked because of parents spoiling their only child.
You cannot control someone's life, it is unethical
Plus the population control isn't even working SO SUCK ON THAT
It's working. My generation would be the apex of Chinese population growth. And ethic makes way for survival, if you are fine with overpopulation and break down of civilization then sure, I will go suck on it while you suck your thumb.
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Yoorah wrote on 2014-03-18 03:44
China's population control was successful for the most part and most people don't have a problem with that. What people did have a problem with was the disturbing trend of having sex-selective abortions, which is immoral in and of itself, in addition to skewing the male:female ratio in the population. The latter is a big problem, as it makes it much more difficult for men to find wives... which leads to more crime.
As for population control in general... it's a problematic topic; main issue being the impact on the economy. To put it simply, an economy needs population growth so that we have more younger working people to support the increasing number of retired and aging citizens. At the same time, having too large a population growth is unsustainable. Deriving an optimal balance and then finding an effective way of implementing it will be an interesting challenge, to say the least.
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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-03-18 04:21
Quote from Yoorah;1207663:
China's population control was successful for the most part and most people don't have a problem with that. What people did have a problem with was the disturbing trend of having sex-selective abortions, which is immoral in and of itself, in addition to skewing the male:female ratio in the population. The latter is a big problem, as it makes it much more difficult for men to find wives... which leads to more crime.
As for population control in general... it's a problematic topic; main issue being the impact on the economy. To put it simply, an economy needs population growth so that we have more younger working people to support the increasing number of retired and aging citizens. At the same time, having too large a population growth is unsustainable. Deriving an optimal balance and then finding an effective way of implementing it will be an interesting challenge, to say the least.
Personally I would provide incentive for less child-birth such as tax increase base on number of children a household have.