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No, I'm advocating not making the problem worse while ignoring its root cause.
by genwin 13y ago
No, I'm advocating not making the problem worse while ignoring its root cause.
- smsm42 13y agoIt's not the choice here. Monsanto can not reform Indian or Chinese society into something else. The choice here is either we have better crops and people do not starve, or we do not have them and people starve. You say "people do not starve" is a bad choice. To me it looks like advocating starving off people as the means for population control.
- genwin 13y agoNo, the choice here is either we have better crops and people starve, or we do not have them and less people starve. brent_noorda explains above.
- smsm42 13y agoIn this scenario "less people" is achieved by starving them off, so you're basically saying "we will starve people off and then there would be less people to starve, so it's actually a good thing". Seems to be like an extremely cynical piece of mental gymnastics.
- genwin 13y agoNobody needs to starve when the root cause is focused on. You're basically saying "we will starve people off in the future, but save less people today, so it's actually a good thing". Of the two of us, I'm the one advocating that less people starve.
- smsm42 13y ago"When the root cause is focused on" is an extremely vague and non-practical phrase. You can always say "since we have people starving, root cause is not fixed, so we should leave them starving and not help them until it is". What is your method for making "less people"? We have population of 7 billion and growing, Green revolution technology can enable us to feed them. If you deny it, then what you propose to do with those people, where they are supposed to go?