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Yes, you are right, I do believe everybody deserves a chance and we shouldn't allow people succumb to disease as a means of population control. It seems like t
by mberning 17y ago
Yes, you are right, I do believe everybody deserves a chance and we shouldn't allow people succumb to disease as a means of population control.
It seems like there are a lot of other pieces to the puzzle that you need to figure out before you introduce a population swell, otherwise you could be creating a generational problem. Save a few million lives today and at the expense of future misery for rather more people.
On the other hand, it could work out great and alleviate a lot of the problems that are holding people back in the first place.
- shaddi 17y agoThis is a good point. In fact, the most effective form of population control turns out to be girl's education (both sexual education and otherwise), which reduces the birth rate. High burdens of disease prevent girl's education from happening, especially in regions where there already exists an education imbalance based on gender. Girl's education has a variety of positive non-population control effects as well (consider that without educating women, 1/2 of a nation's population will not be as productive as they would be otherwise). So the current situation is high birth rates with high death rates, which keeps population in a grim equilibrium while the rest of society's resources are spent trying to keep as many people alive as possible rather than engaged in productive development. Reducing the burden of disease is a necessary first step in freeing up these resources to be used in other ways, like girl's education, which will help to alleviate many of the problems of a "sudden" population boom that you mention.