Why isn't eugenics being taken seriously?

[darkwonders]

cut down the earth's population to about 1/10th of it's current level and try to get birth/death rates about even.

I don't have a problem with killing undesirables, but I suppose we could do the humane thing and just prohibit people from having kids. Maybe eventually get to the point where all people are sterile and all children are grown in vitro.

There is too many of us humans, that's why we're running into so many problems.

[boozehound420]

hitler fucked that whole idea up for us.

[darkwonders]

it's so true. Not just Hitler I suppose, but the holocaust didn't exactly help.

[Eat A Queer Fetus For Jesus]

It's theoretically possible to make a species-specific virus that prevents reproduction without any side effects.

[pianoSpleen]

Because of this silliness called "empathy".

Also you'll notice there's a direct linear relationship between the number of people alive and the number of technological advances in a year. Both have been going up exponentially.

In short I believe that sooner or later we ARE going to have to make drastic changes, but not now and not in the way you describe.

For example, I support, as horrible as it is, segregating/tattooing those infected with HIV, simply because there is no other way. Cuba did it and they have HIV rates comparable to Australia despite every one of their neighbors having infection rates tens or hundreds of times higher.

Naturally we're going to have to do something about the population eventually, but right now we're capable of sustaining some population growth. Japan seems to be doing fine despite a RIDICULOUS population density.

[darkwonders]

Originally Posted by pianoSpleen

Because of this silliness called "empathy".

Also you'll notice there's a direct linear relationship between the number of people alive and the number of technological advances in a year. Both have been going up exponentially.


For example, I support, as horrible as it is, segregating/tattooing those infected with HIV, simply because there is no other way. Cuba did it and they have HIV rates comparable to Australia despite every one of their neighbors having infection rates tens or hundreds of times higher.

Naturally we're going to have to do something about the population eventually, but right now we're capable of sustaining some population growth. Japan seems to be doing fine despite a RIDICULOUS population density.

I'm kind of getting tired of people proclaiming technological advances as signs of progress. There is nothing inherently beneficial about technology, it just makes things more complicated.

As for Japan, who the fuck would want to live there. There is a reason why Japanese society is so structured, because it has to be. The gaps between Japan's lower class and middle class (basically those that can actually afford a tiny piece of land somewhere and those that can't) is huge. There is entire villages in Osaka of bums living in little self made huts. Not to mention, Japan has a terrible government that almost borders on communism (yes I said it).

I blame religion (especially Catholicism).

[Diesel]

Get rid of China.

[darkwonders]

Get rid of their populous or just make the whole damn place vanish?

Either way, that's only a little more than 1 billion people (still not nearly enough) and I can't live without Tibet and Guilin.

[pianoSpleen]

Originally Posted by darkwonders

I'm kind of getting tired of people proclaiming technological advances as signs of progress. There is nothing inherently beneficial about technology, it just makes things more complicated.

As for Japan, who the fuck would want to live there. There is a reason why Japanese society is so structured, because it has to be. The gaps between Japan's lower class and middle class (basically those that can actually afford a tiny piece of land somewhere and those that can't) is huge. There is entire villages in Osaka of bums living in little self made huts. Not to mention, Japan has a terrible government that almost borders on communism (yes I said it).

I blame religion (especially Catholicism).

I don't want to get into an argument with you, but I couldn't help thinking "this post is so full of shit it's just not funny".

[MasterPython]

In the thirties all the western countries were exsperimenting with it. But then Hitler outdid all of them and it fell out of favour.