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Ray H said:I dont understand why this is such a hard thing for most people to understand. I dont think we need to intentionally kill people off (unless you like that sort of thing). Nature will eventually do the job. At some point, when the earth can no longer support the human species, there will be enough deceases and homosexuality and killing to put things back in check. it'll happen automatically whether we want it to or not. It's already starting, but it will get worse before it gets better. Im going to enjoy myself and not worry too much about it because its out of my hands.
I'm fairly sure that's how AIDS and Ebola have gotten started - since humanity isn't cleaning house, Nature is taking over.
AIDS came around first - the idea of the virus is simple. If people are breeding entirely too much, let's make the simple act of breeding dangrous and potentially lethal. This should slow down breeding.
Didn't work? Let's come up with some nasty disease, that uses a mechanism we haven't a cure for (how many viral diseases do we have cures for? In round figures - zero. We can work to prevent them, but only the body can cure them...) transmits on an airborne vector (taking care of populous areas,) and is nearly 100% fatal.
I wonder what will be next. Some variety of "Super-Ebola," with a long incubation time and a course of 48 hours? Some mutagenic virus that pulverises germ cells? All of the disease vectors we have been dealing with pretty much work against somatic cells - the germ line hasn't been attacked yet. I honestly think it's only a matter of time (we have congential defects, but they're not directly transmissable except by actual reproduction.)
And, we've been working on "Super-Staph" and the like (due largely to misuse of antibiotics and overuse of sterilisers) long enough that we should see something interesting happening there soon as well.
Also, check your history, and look at wars from the point of view of logistics (vice politics.) Most wars in history were caused by population pressures - and we're hideously overdue for another major global conflict. It's going to be ugly...
Throw in the "demographic warfare" going on (here in the Southwest with New Aztlan, and in southern Europe with the Islamic world,) and things are just getting worse and worse. We really need the safety valve to blow off before it destroys the world entirely...
And, we're not really doing anything to help matters. "Advances" in gerontoloty are keeping people around long past their "use-by" date, we're protecting people from their own stupidity, and much effort is going into keeping children alive who really shouldn't be (Nature is self-correcting - we just have the conceit to think we can do better...)
Maybe we do need to start killing people off. We're not letting it happen on its own...