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Birth control limits. We can be happy fat cats and solve global warming just by having fewer people. Richness is resources per person. Resources on the planet

Birth control limits. We can be happy fat cats and solve global warming just by having fewer people. Richness is resources per person. Resources on the planet are approximately fixed with occasional (large) increases from tech advances. The divisor, on the other hand, can be changed from 7 billion to 1 million. We would all be 7 thousand times richer. I would immediately own 5 abandoned Ferraris, and there would be hardly a need for any speed limits. Here's hoping for WW3, mass infertility, etc.

fao_ 7y ago
I have a rule. Anyone who advocates or otherwise wishes to impose systematic methods of extermination on other people should be the first people to be chosen to be subject to the system. You want people in the boat to resort to cannibalism? Ok, you're first to be eaten. You want to throw someone out of the hot air balloon? Ok, you first. Jump. If you want to serilize people? Ok. You first. Go to a doctor and demand to be sterilized. If they won't do it, either find a doctor that will, or grab a knife and do it yourself. You want a second plague? Ok. You first. Volunteer for Doctors Without Borders, go to a plague-ridden country, and deliberately infect yourself with something horrible. You want to bomb people? Ok, go join Doctors Without Borders, or another aid effort, and help bomb victims. Put yourself at risk of being bombed. Join the millitary and put yourself on the other end of the shelling. People rarely wish for these things to happen to them. Be the exception.
- whycombinater 7y ago
  I don't want more than 0-2 kids, so...
  - fao_ 7y ago
    And you don't want other people to have any children. How hypocritical.
    - whycombinater 7y ago
      Fine, I only want 0 then. Argument won. I'd rather have 0 kids and fix humanity and global warming than have a kid. The fact that you'd rather nitpick my argument and call it hypocritical in the face of extinction... It's like...God is on a mountain with his arms raised in a Y saying "I have the secret to you're humanity:" and you say "ACTUALLY IT'S YOUR". I don't even.

fao_ 7y ago

I have a rule. Anyone who advocates or otherwise wishes to impose systematic methods of extermination on other people should be the first people to be chosen to be subject to the system. You want people in the boat to resort to cannibalism? Ok, you're first to be eaten. You want to throw someone out of the hot air balloon? Ok, you first. Jump. If you want to serilize people? Ok. You first. Go to a doctor and demand to be sterilized. If they won't do it, either find a doctor that will, or grab a knife and do it yourself. You want a second plague? Ok. You first. Volunteer for Doctors Without Borders, go to a plague-ridden country, and deliberately infect yourself with something horrible. You want to bomb people? Ok, go join Doctors Without Borders, or another aid effort, and help bomb victims. Put yourself at risk of being bombed. Join the millitary and put yourself on the other end of the shelling. People rarely wish for these things to happen to them. Be the exception.

whycombinater 7y ago
I don't want more than 0-2 kids, so...
- fao_ 7y ago
  And you don't want other people to have any children. How hypocritical.
  - whycombinater 7y ago
    Fine, I only want 0 then. Argument won. I'd rather have 0 kids and fix humanity and global warming than have a kid. The fact that you'd rather nitpick my argument and call it hypocritical in the face of extinction... It's like...God is on a mountain with his arms raised in a Y saying "I have the secret to you're humanity:" and you say "ACTUALLY IT'S YOUR". I don't even.