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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
i'm not as misathropic as before, but a few years ago i was of the idea that the working class should stop having children to better the world and that people who can't score a certain grade on intelligence tests (not just iq, but like aptitudes tests and acquired knowledge tests) should be killed.
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Even though the natural assimilative capacities of the planet are being stressed, the world doesn't need less people necessarily. It does, however, desperately need less dumb people living under the rule of dumb leaders.
And, of course, you can't just kill them all. All one can do is hope that we will learn from the suffering that we inevitably bring upon ourselves in our ignorance.
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Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham
we dont need less people, we need to relocate.
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Well, eventually we will need to relocate if we are to survive as a species. And we'll perhaps need to do it sooner rather than later because our behaviors are demolishing our life-sustaining atmosphere and we are already well on our way to transforming this planet into a literal biblical hell-on-earth like the conditions on Venus.
And assuming that we can avoid extinction due to climate change, we'll still need to abandon this galaxy before the Sun goes supernova in a few billion more years.