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This may sound monstrous initially, but please hear me out!
Say we invent some sort of nuke that doesn't kill or maim people, it only sterilizes them. It wouldn't reduce lifespan or sexual pleasure, and people can live without reproduction. Say we dropped the bomb on like 30% of the world's current
population. In 50 years, there would be far fewer starving children and less disease thanks to THE BOMB!
A more radical approach
http://www.vhemt.org
[mrthingy, Jun 28 2001]
Child Vouchers
http://www.halfbake...ea/Child_20Vouchers
A more moral approach [badoingdoing, Jun 28 2001]
Mostly baked
http://en.wikipedia...lsory_sterilization
Worst offender: Nazi Germany. Second place: USA [omegatron, Jun 01 2005]
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Forced sterilization for population control is hardly a new idea. Doing it via bomb is, if only because there's no known way to do it cleanly. If you're going to wave your hands and posit magic technology, you'd be better off with biotech, engineering some sort of disease. |
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'Wouldn't it be neat if'. |
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Sterilizing big swathes of your enemies might backfire, militarily. They might be much mroe aggressive, not just from having a bomb dropped on them but because the lack the stabilizing effect of children - whether the stabilization comes from nothing more than exhaustion of parents and other national resources. |
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I posted a link to "Child Vouchers". I like it better. In any case, many countries have a stable or decreasing population (according to the Washington Post (I think thats where I read it) the US has a stable population and the population in Italy and Japan, for example, is shrinking). Taking this into account, perhaps the best solution is adoption of children from areas with increasing populations. |
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What's wrong with "u" is that there should be a "y" and an "o" in front of it. |
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Bad news, these days, people tend to group up in racially defined groups. Bombs, generally having an area affect would be working along racial grounds, which most find to be a bad idea. I would prefer egnors biotech approach but putting the bacteria in airport air-conditioning. That way it spreads it through the richer part of the worlds population in a fairly even handed manner. |
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While I agree that large portions of the Earth's population not procreating would be a great thing for that population's well-being, and I agree that that's not likely to happen through any kind of social program (instincts and all that), and that the most likely result of the expansion will be war, I'm still not croissanting this. |
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And where exactly do you plan to detonate this bomb? |
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Since [guyonthecouch] appears to be
one of those hit-and-run posters who
has not reappeared yet, can I propose
that the HB Senior Executive Engineers
develop an algorithm which can trace
the miscreant, find their computer, and
remotely log them back in to the HB so
that they can be insulted properly? |
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