Poll: Should our species be exempt from culling?
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Get rid of humanity and replace it with what? Trees? Flowers? What's the point of existence without sentient civilization?zedel said:
Also, interesting fact: Earth is doomed. It will take a few billion years, but sooner or later the Sun is going to blow up and eat this planet. The only hope for life, long term, is humanity.
I have to agree with you there, I don't think murder is right, especially just because people have unwanted traits or cos there are too many in one place. Yahtzee best explains this in his Black Ops reviewMiles000 said:
Sure, if you can answer one question of mine:
Why the fuck should you, your family, or anyone you care about be spared? Think you or they aren't monsters? Ha.
Also, what is the primary directive of life? To live. Good luck getting people to voluntarily kill themselves. Oh, wait, you want to wield that power yourself and choose who lives or dies, right?
Megalomaniac. You border on sociopathic.
Why the fuck should you, your family, or anyone you care about be spared? Think you or they aren't monsters? Ha.
Also, what is the primary directive of life? To live. Good luck getting people to voluntarily kill themselves. Oh, wait, you want to wield that power yourself and choose who lives or dies, right?
Megalomaniac. You border on sociopathic.
If we were aliens that looked on humans like animals? sure. They'd kill us all, take our resources and fly away back out into space looking for the next planet to mug. But humans culling other humans? Who the fuck gave them the right to decide that someone else should die? Just because their country has fewer people? what sort of fucking sense does that make.Longshot said:
It's point is to foster life, and we're not the only species appreciative of the lives we're given. There are millions of species on the planet, and we're ruining it for all of themValkyrie101 said:
And the whole disgusting cycle starts all over again. It's not enough for you that we're already destroying our native planet?Admiral Stukov said:
We recycle a lot of things. We can recycle people too. Or at least, put some of them to better, albeit somewhat more lethal, use.
Transplant organs, test subjects, medical cadavers and even food. These are things we need, roles that could easily be assigned to some of the less useful elements of our society.
It wouldn't be hard to implement in a capitalist system, either, where the usefulness of someone is directly proportional to their income. Just have people buy their lives on, say, their 40th Birthday (the point they'd be less useful for manual labour), if they can't afford to buy themselves, they can be recycled.
Some people would say being owned by the state for the first 40 years of your life is slavery. But let's face it, you already are owned by your state. You pay taxes, don't you?
Transplant organs, test subjects, medical cadavers and even food. These are things we need, roles that could easily be assigned to some of the less useful elements of our society.
It wouldn't be hard to implement in a capitalist system, either, where the usefulness of someone is directly proportional to their income. Just have people buy their lives on, say, their 40th Birthday (the point they'd be less useful for manual labour), if they can't afford to buy themselves, they can be recycled.
Some people would say being owned by the state for the first 40 years of your life is slavery. But let's face it, you already are owned by your state. You pay taxes, don't you?
I have to say that most of you guys are sick fucks.
If you want to "cull" the human population, there is something seriously wrong with you.
If you are worried about population growth, chill the fuck out, we aren't anywhere near the predicted limit of the population the earth can sustain and by the time we get there there will be a bunch of new technology that pushes that limit even further.
If you are up for limiting reproduction or preventing overpopulation or the destruction of the human race do us and your ideology a favour and fucking kill yourselves.
If you want to "cull" the human population, there is something seriously wrong with you.
If you are worried about population growth, chill the fuck out, we aren't anywhere near the predicted limit of the population the earth can sustain and by the time we get there there will be a bunch of new technology that pushes that limit even further.
If you are up for limiting reproduction or preventing overpopulation or the destruction of the human race do us and your ideology a favour and fucking kill yourselves.
Define 'destruction'.Murray Whitwell said:
Nothing is being lost, simply being changed. Every animal has an effect on it's environment, we're simply the most influential. I'm pretty sure that if lions could eat the o-zone at the expense of our atmosphere, they wouldn't give a damn about anyone else.
hmm, a mass human culling, when has that happened before? Oh that's right in [statement censored to prevent someone calling "Godwin's Law"].
Slowing down population growth is fine, but to actually kill people to lower the population is just sick, either you're just trying to look edgy or you're a moral vacuum.
Slowing down population growth is fine, but to actually kill people to lower the population is just sick, either you're just trying to look edgy or you're a moral vacuum.
Ok, im not one for hippy bullshit, but Im sorry, this is EXACTLY what the planet needs. Ok perhaps not a proactive culling, but a viable agreed upon method of limiting population growth and a method of forcibly moving that number down with a short period of time (like 3 generations) when the need should arise.
Its true, no other species purposely curtails its own population growth, but there is a huge difference. We are THE apex predator on the planet. Competitor wise we have nothing that will cut our population numbers under the normal laws of the wild. So because we dont we NEED something to cut our numbers down.
Our largest modern problems right now would evaporate if the worlds population were cut in half. Environmental, national, Economical. We need to do this, for the good of the species, and to help ensure our future long enough until colonization can begin.
Its true, no other species purposely curtails its own population growth, but there is a huge difference. We are THE apex predator on the planet. Competitor wise we have nothing that will cut our population numbers under the normal laws of the wild. So because we dont we NEED something to cut our numbers down.
Our largest modern problems right now would evaporate if the worlds population were cut in half. Environmental, national, Economical. We need to do this, for the good of the species, and to help ensure our future long enough until colonization can begin.
Eh, if it wasn't for plants, we'd not have accumulated large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere. Which gave rise to animals to eat the plants. Yeah, that's what you get for fucking up the atmosphere with your O2 emissions, stupid plants.GLo Jones said:
It isn't, actually. The Earth won't actually be engulfed, though the surface isn't going to be much fun for most forms of life. In any case, if we are talking about massive amounts of time, nothing lives past (or even up to, really) heat death.Valkyrie101 said:
It also won't matter so much for the people on Earth at the time. It's unlikely that everyone migrates offworld, there will be people on the Earth stuck with the same problems, even if people are living elsewhere.Tomo Stryker said:
There are far better ways to deal with the major problem of overpopulation than inhumane culling.
Population control laws really need to be put in effect for the entire world (not just the massively populated countries).
Limit woman to 1 child only without heavy taxation or penalty. Exceptions would of course exist as someone giving birth to twins would have not be punished for something outside of their control.
Families looking for more children could either adopt or pay some extreme cost to mitigate the costs of human life's effect on global resources. I'd arbitrarily make it about the cost of buying a house; $300,000 upfront and increased taxation on the family for each year ongoing. This would prevent all by the upper-middle classes or higher from considering the option and having to choose adoption first.
Population control laws really need to be put in effect for the entire world (not just the massively populated countries).
Limit woman to 1 child only without heavy taxation or penalty. Exceptions would of course exist as someone giving birth to twins would have not be punished for something outside of their control.
Families looking for more children could either adopt or pay some extreme cost to mitigate the costs of human life's effect on global resources. I'd arbitrarily make it about the cost of buying a house; $300,000 upfront and increased taxation on the family for each year ongoing. This would prevent all by the upper-middle classes or higher from considering the option and having to choose adoption first.
O god do people not understand the question?! What is this!!
We cull dumb animals, not that I agree with culling by any means but they cant understand what they do or why they do it so they will detrpy crops and overpopulate certain areas.
You think going into a major city and just shooting down everyone in sight is the answer to the worlds problems? What if it was your city?
Excapist is mental today. Too many morbid crazy threads. Think you all had too much yesterday. <3
We cull dumb animals, not that I agree with culling by any means but they cant understand what they do or why they do it so they will detrpy crops and overpopulate certain areas.
You think going into a major city and just shooting down everyone in sight is the answer to the worlds problems? What if it was your city?
Excapist is mental today. Too many morbid crazy threads. Think you all had too much yesterday. <3
