Quote Originally Posted by pj View Post
You need to fly over the middle of the US sometime if you are worried about overpopulation.

We have been carefully taught that people are the problem. How could that be? Without people, there are no problems - sure... but that is the same twisted logic that leads to the notion that suicide is a solution to a situation or problem.

Remember the Population Bomb? That was the big indoctrination back when I was in middles school. We were all expected to starve by 1980.

'Cept we didnt'. Because PEOPLE CREATE WEALTH.

Wealth isn't just cash, my friend. It is food. It is technology. It is art. It is what free people do when they are permitted to... and when they not rewarded for NOT being productive, which is what collectivism does.

If I may suggest, pick up a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand and dig in. You might learn that selfishness - RATIONAL selfishness - is a virtue.[/b]
I am not sure if you are calling me irrational. But that is just my case. I believe it to BE rational.
You should try a flight over China, India, Africa, Japan, Mexico.
All those things you point out are worthless if it is out resourced.
I think a study of microeconomics is more in order than what you call, "suicide." Wow. I have heard the argument before about abortion being suicide, but never have I heard of choosing to not have children like some kind of preemptive suicide. Beleive me. The population is not going to decline provided that there is no mass pandemic.
Sure it is easy to have that outlook in our nice urban setting. But there is a line between creating stable ergonomics and creating a need for dwindling resources.