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Originally Posted by Alphapheemail
I have been following this thread completely enthralled with the series of ideas that have been discussed. I agree with most, some i have to do some research on what yee all are talking about.  kudos
I love hearing about the space program and all of the discoveries that have come forth from it.
However I do think its time that we eradicate world hunger. I mean its been around for HOW LONG?
now I know its not as simple as allocating money... we have seen that.
Its politics of the hungriest nations. It may seem that having hungry people benefit few on the top. This is what saddens me.
The only way i can see to efficiently attempt to solve this is by dramatic population control. Why bring children to the world to be hungry?
Less of us would help the environment as well.
thoughts? |
Before the space program, war brought forth science and technology. The real incentive, the reason for achieving greatness is having a common goal. The next one should be achieving a unification of the planet's passengers. That Babel thing has lasted enough.
In nature, all species challenged by extinction get a high reproduction drive to compensate for loss.
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Originally Posted by kazbates
When you start talking about population control, you get into a really dicey area. I, for one, do not want to tell people whether or not they can procreate. I wouldn't have liked it if someone told me I could only have 2 children, then I wouldn't have had Ryleigh who is an absolute blessing from God.
Having said that, I agree that people should be more sexually responsible. If you can't provide for a child, don't have one. I wish it were that simple, but know that it is not. Go back a few posts to Steve's comments about "getting laid every night" and you see an underlying issue. Sex feels good! When you can't control much about your outside environment, that seems to be the only thing you can control. The escape that sex can provide from the realities of life is one of the biggest aphrodisiacs. Thinking about birth control or disease transmittion gets in the way of that euphoric/escapism feeling, not to mention the religious or cultural aspects of birth control. 
Bottom line, we're going to have to deal with world hunger another way. |
Sex is God's joke on us. It is so powerful a force on us as to be almost totally impossible not to fall for it. We are not let any power on it but will and we know how fallible it is...
Sex is so important that it has a big part of our brain dedicated to it. BTW it is the same part that is stimulated by powerful narcotics such as cocaine, heroin and nicotine. No wonder those things turn up to be addictive. They become as hard wired as sex.