What is the solution to overpopulation?

[moonford]

instead of killing people, how about we put them in space? build artificial mini planets?

We will probably destroy everything up there too.

 

[Miii]

Noo I'm not a troll. Google it. And I'm not a feminist I just don't appreciate misogyny nor do I appreciate men being TOTAL BUTTHOLES

Yeah I'm familiar with "kill all men" as it's been around since 2010 or so. It's a ridiculous and f**ked up ideology that would never work unless you felt like forcing certain women into slavery to perform jobs that need to be done, but that women are already choosing not to do. Some of the most male dominated jobs are things like construction, home repair, plumbing, electricity, coal mining, oil and gas production, car/bus/truck mechanics, aircraft mechanics, accounting/financing, IT, cooking, law enforcement, emergency services such as fire fighting, math related academic careers, and (here's a big one) POLITICS.

On top of there being so many valuable male dominated careers, NOT ALL MEN ARE MISOGYNISTS. In fact, MOST men aren't misogynistic and don't treat women poorly. Yeah, some guys are like that, but you can't just apply an idiotic stereotype like that to MORE THAN HALF THE POPULATION.

How would you feel if I said that all women are so weak, unintelligent and emotionally fragile that they need men to take over and make decisions for them? Sounds stupid, right? That's exactly what you're doing.

 

[visibleghost]

Yeah I'm familiar with "kill all men" as it's been around since 2010 or so. It's a ridiculous and f**ked up ideology that would never work unless you felt like forcing certain women into slavery to perform jobs that need to be done, but that women are already choosing not to do. Some of the most male dominated jobs are things like construction, home repair, plumbing, electricity, coal mining, oil and gas production, car/bus/truck mechanics, aircraft mechanics, accounting/financing, IT, cooking, law enforcement, emergency services such as fire fighting, math related academic careers, and (here's a big one) POLITICS.

On top of there being so many valuable male dominated careers, NOT ALL MEN ARE MISOGYNISTS. In fact, MOST men aren't misogynistic and don't treat women poorly. Yeah, some guys are like that, but you can't just apply an idiotic stereotype like that to MORE THAN HALF THE POPULATION.

How would you feel if I said that all women are so weak, unintelligent and emotionally fragile that they need men to take over and make decisions for them? Sounds stupid, right? That's exactly what you're doing.

woo chill out and men already say that about women so :^P

 

[Miii]

instead of killing people, how about we put them in space? build artificial mini planets?

im pretty sure with the technology we have and continue to make, we can make a planet.
its only if those rich elites even have the morality to put their funds into something progressive.
but im pretty sure for them, it would be easier to just "kill people"

Actually, killing people would be much easier, it would just be a lot more gruesome. Think about how big earth is, and how many resources we have on it. Taking even a fourth of the available resources we have to put it towards forming another (much smaller) planet would be incredibly harmful to us, and making a planet habitable requires an atmosphere, nutrient rich soil (so lots of dead things already broken down), plant life to inhabit that soil, and interdependent living organisms that work together like we have on earth to keep the cycle of life and death going.

The only other planets similar to earth that we've discovered are very, very far away and would take years to get to.

 

[visibleghost]

Actually, killing people would be much easier, it would just be a lot more gruesome. Think about how big earth is, and how many resources we have on it. Taking even a fourth of the available resources we have to put it towards forming another (much smaller) planet would be incredibly harmful to us, and making a planet habitable requires an atmosphere, nutrient rich soil (so lots of dead things already broken down), plant life to inhabit that soil, and interdependent living organisms that work together like we have on earth to keep the cycle of life and death going.

The only other planets similar to earth that we've discovered are very, very far away and would take years to get to.

yeah like thousands of years. if we travelled at the speed of light. lmao.

and no offense but how are you going to choose who will die? like, will they just say "hey we need to get rid of 15% of the earth's population" and then the different countries would have to just kill off 15% of their population. lmao imagine that.

 

[visibleghost]

double post ):

 

[Miii]

woo chill out and men already say that about women so :^P

No, I'm not gonna chill out when some idiot suggests committing mass genocide because "men are buttholes". Ever heard of Hitler? Are you okay with what he did? No? Then don't tell me to chill.

Not all men say that kind of crap about women. Again, some of them do, not all, and even if a larger portion of them thought that way, education and advocating equal rights is better than killing over half the population.

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yeah like thousands of years. if we travelled at the speed of light. lmao.

and no offense but how are you going to choose who will die? like, will they just say "hey we need to get rid of 15% of the earth's population" and then the different countries would have to just kill off 15% of their population. lmao imagine that.

I'm not advocating killing people -__- I was saying that killing people is easier than forming an entire other planet to dump our men on. I think getting rid of any man just because he's a man is messed up, and that people need to stop stereotyping an entire gender, and saying that they need to die because they were born with a penis.

 

[visibleghost]

No, I'm not gonna chill out when some idiot suggests committing mass genocide because "men are buttholes". Ever heard of Hitler? Are you okay with what he did? No? Then don't tell me to chill.

Not all men say that kind of crap about women. Again, some of them do, not all, and even if a larger portion of them thought that way, education and advocating equal rights is better than killing over half the population.

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I'm not advocating killing people -__- I was saying that killing people is easier than forming an entire other planet to dump our men on. I think getting rid of any man just because he's a man is messed up, and that people need to stop stereotyping an entire gender, and saying that they need to die because they were born with a penis.

lol ok
the two aren't compareable but Yeah Okay Sure. and i never said i agreed w killing men lmao i'd die too then, i just said that women already are oppressed by men. also a woman saying she hates men is not the same as a man saying he hates women jsyk :^)

and being born w a penis =/= man But Alright Whatever

 

[oath2order]

Mass execution of all male of the human species. I probably just offended everyone but oh well cause in the end it doesn't even matter In fact, females can pregnant using the BONE MARROW of another woman and the chances of the child being female are 100% so

First off

Secondly all I could find out was one team having done this (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17937813/...-science-render-men-unnecessary/#.V3lxbfkrKUk) and (http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/babies-from-bone-marrow)

They've done it in mice before and turns out, they just create short-lived baby mice.

manmade disease, like that one game on the iPhone, it's called disease or something. You make different diseases and your goal is to kill everyone. Planet of the Apes?

Plague Inc, Pandemic...

hm to be completely realistic, i think the government will just limit the number of kids someone can have

While they might do that, that doesn't really end up working out. China's One Child policy didn't work. They just killed the female babies.

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and being born w a penis =/= man But Alright Whatever

I mean for approximately 99.99% of people in the world with a penis identify a man so it's we might as well just say penis=man.

 

[Miii]

lol ok
the two aren't compareable but Yeah Okay Sure. and i never said i agreed w killing men lmao i'd die too then, i just said that women already are oppressed by men. also a woman saying she hates men is not the same as a man saying he hates women jsyk :^)

and being born w a penis =/= man But Alright Whatever

Killing all men (which, again, make up more than half the population) would be worse than what Hitler did, so yes, they are absolutely comparable.

Women are only oppressed by men in places like the middle east where it's illegal to step outside without wearing a pitch black burka covering your entire body, and parts of asia and africa where women are housewives with no access to birth control who end up having something like eight children that they can hardly afford to care for before they're 25. Women are NOT oppressed by men in western society.

Western women have it SO good compared to the rest of the world. It's literally illegal not to hire us just because we're women. It's illegal to fire us just because we're pregnant, even though it forces a business to give you paid time off for your maternal leave (even if you just got hired two weeks ago!). Women in America will almost always win a custody case against her children's father. Women get child support from their child's father when they get divorced. Women get government assistance when they have more children than they can afford to care for. WAY more men are homeless than women. Men make up almost ALL of workplace fatalities because men occupy more dangerous (but necessary) careers. More men get raped than women (if you include prison statistics, which I do). Women are far more likely to have a rape accusation taken seriously. When a man says he's the victim of domestic abuse, he's laughed at and asked what he did to p**s a woman off. There's also the fact that a man is called p**sy if he talks about his feelings too much, where women are allowed to be as emotional as they want. So, in reality, WOMEN are the privileged ones, not men.

And being born with a penis does make you a man. Biology determines gender, not "I feel like I'm this", sorry. I've said this before, but just because you're born a man or a woman doesn't mean you have to identify with the stereotypes associated with your gender, and live your life the way others tell you to.

And look, I get that you're trying to be the ultimate nice guy by saying that you are whatever gender you want to be, but we can't just toss aside facts and rationality to appease people that get offended for the wrong reasons. You have to consider that being transgender means that you're rejecting the physical reality of the body you were born into. That's highly abnormal and, while I'm not saying we should mistreat transgender people, I think that we should have a look into their mental health history before being like "yep, you have a penis, but you were supposed to be a woman." And I'm not setting out to hurt anyone's feelings or make them feel bad about themselves, but here's an alarming statistic for you: 80% of post-op transgenders kill themselves. 80%. In other words, 80% of transgenders that got exactly what they wanted, and lived as the gender they wanted to be were still unhappy enough to end their lives. If that doesn't hint at mental illness, then I don't know what does.

 

[Red Cat]

I'm pretty sure most of the overpopulation comes from countries where condoms and such are hard to come by, so make getting condoms easier & less costly. Also getting rid of the cultural and financial need for women to have kids in some countries would help too.

I don't think the problem is that condoms and other forms of birth control are too costly; the problem is that there are still many areas of the world where birth control is culturally frowned upon. There are still a lot of very religious people in the world who believe it's their duty to put as many kids on the Earth as possible. That's why many experts say it's so important to educate women around the world so that they don't just see themselves as baby-making machines.

 

[tybalt_cake]

i have a better tutorial than all of you

1-Hear to Mark Thomas musica.lys
2-take yo bleach brought from walmart *CLOROX ONLY*
3-drink it
4-??????
5-profit

 

[Mr. Cat]

Stop making so many freaking advancements in the medical field.

 

[Fleshy]

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[nerdatheart9490]

China had a one child policy that lead to a decrease in population. If all first-world countries set a two child limit, the population would be far better maintained while not getting too low.

Obviously this will not work in poorer nations where childhood mortality rate is very high. A child limit policy would destroy these countries.

 

[Red Cat]

China had a one child policy that lead to a decrease in population. If all first-world countries set a two child limit, the population would be far better maintained while not getting too low.

Obviously this will not work in poorer nations where childhood mortality rate is very high. A child limit policy would destroy these countries.

That's the problem though. Most first-world countries already have low birth rates and aging populations are a problem in many of those countries because people just don't want to have many children. Most third-world countries have very high birth rates and the only way to reduce that is to clean up all of the other problems which lead to those high birth rates because setting birth limits in those countries will not work.

 

[Flowergender]

Stop having children for starters. I say go 5 or so years without a single person giving birth.

 

[Cudon]

Stop having children for starters. I say go 5 or so years without a single person giving birth.

I know that's like a random thought type of thing, but god that would end up so bad.
Most importantly it'd cause a gap in the ages of the population, which would cause problems for quite some time when the gap ages to working adult age. There'd be too few tax payers.
And, you know, you can't just tell the whole world to stop doing something, it won't work without some really brutal regulating and even then people find a way. It also really goes against the interests of people who really dream of getting children anytime soon and it would kind of force abortion on accidental pregnancies and not all people want to experience abortions.

 

[moonford]

i have a better tutorial than all of you

1-Hear to Mark Thomas musica.lys
2-take yo bleach brought from walmart *CLOROX ONLY*
3-drink it
4-??????
5-profit

Not every country has Walmart though.

 

[Soda Fox]

I'm already choosing not to breed so

1. I feel like I'm already doing my part to help solve the issue and
2. I don't really care if the world gets over populated because I won't have any offspring that need to suffer through it.

I think education is the only way that we can humanely slow down our process toward overpopulation. Unless people decide for themselves to cut back on having children, it's inhumane to force them to cut back, and they probably still won't anyway. Even with China having the one child law, families still had more than one frequently and would give one up (usually the girls) or kill them, and that's not ok.