Should we reduce the surplus population to fight climate change?

[aufbahrung]

Suicide booths. Euthanasia being liberalised and for any who have a bad day or two? Lot's of ways to reduce population. And all will reduce the carbon footprint of mankind. Trying to start a serious debate.

[laklak]

Involuntary euthanasia. Modern solutions for modern problems.

[aufbahrung]

Involuntary euthanasia. Modern solutions for modern problems.

CIA for?

[pErvinalia]

You could volunteer to go first.

[laklak]

The beauty of involuntary euthanasia is there's none of that tiresome volunteering shite.

[Svartalf]

So the Columbine kids were actually do gooders?

[laklak]

It has to be a lottery.

[JimC]

The next pandemic might just do the trick...

[Brian Peacock]

Suicide booths. Euthanasia being liberalised and for any who have a bad day or two? Lot's of ways to reduce population. And all will reduce the carbon footprint of mankind. Trying to start a serious debate.

When people talk about this kind of thing they're usually thinking about the poor.

"We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavouring to impede, the operations of nature in producing mortality; and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel nature to use. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country, we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations.*12 But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders."
-- Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_ ... Population

[Svartalf]

It has to be a lottery.

why not a carrousel while you're at it?

[aufbahrung]

I guess a contrived disease would be more democratic and provide a golden ticket or not depending on luck rather wealth?

[Hermit]

Suicide booths. Euthanasia being liberalised and for any who have a bad day or two? Lot's of ways to reduce population. And all will reduce the carbon footprint of mankind. Trying to start a serious debate.

When people talk about this kind of thing they're usually thinking about the poor.

"We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavouring to impede, the operations of nature in producing mortality; and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel nature to use. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country, we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations.*12 But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders."
-- Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_ ... Population

Jonathan Swift proposed a far less cruel, much more elegant solution in 1729. It simultaneously solved the problems of overpopulation and poverty. Libertarians should be gung-ho about it because it forced nobody to do anything against their will, leaving the scheme to free market exchanges instead. Abortion opponents ought to be equally enthusiastic because it dis-incentivised premature termination of pregnancies. I don't know why neither groups picked up on it.

[Sean Hayden]

What surplus population?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Suicide booths. Euthanasia being liberalised and for any who have a bad day or two? Lot's of ways to reduce population. And all will reduce the carbon footprint of mankind.

So, 'Go Fuck Yourself!' for the win?

Trying to start a serious debate.

[laklak]

...So, 'Go Fuck Yourself!' for the win? ...

Pull my hair