11-23-2009, 05:53 PM
Quote:Hi,
Bad logic. True, one person with a large nuclear arsenal can destroy the world. The point, though, is saving the world. You *can* save the world of one billion. You *might be* able to save the world of six billion. Good luck with, say, twenty. It's like treating a person who is sick. They may have symptoms like nausea, headache, etc. You can treat each of the symptoms with some specific medication or other. And treating the symptoms is a worthwhile task, in that it improves the patient's condition. But if the underlying problem is an infection, none of those medications address the real problem. And, as far as the world is concerned, population is the real problem, everything else is a symptom.
As I said, I knew this when I was 9. Then I found out it is far more complex than that. Of course you can just lobby for a few big genocide, kill off some countries by using a-bombs or start a few eugenics programs, otherwise making such statements don't make a lot of sense. Or if you really think that the things in my last sentence would be good than something fari more disturbing is going on.
Quote:This was really necessary? Because you know so much of his habits and life that you are entitled to insult him?
Excuse me, I need to go wash off the stink of the sewer. :angry:
--Pete
I am getting a bit simple from those continuous discussion stoppers. We all know that overpopulation is a big problem....no sense bringing it up in each and every thread. Even though that sentence wasn't really directed towards Occhi, it was general (more with Kandrathe and Ashock in mind really:) )