Oh what a slippery slope this one is. Let me start off with the premise my wife and I are strong believers in the eugenics movement. We believe that differing groups should not create offspring with the potential for handicaps and disease. We both believe that any two bloodlines that are carriers of any disease that is handed down should not procreate together. Other groups that place a societal burden on the whole should also have births controlled. Its that simple. We go to great efforts to breed the best animals of all species in our care, and then think not one iota of our own specie.

Originally posted by Illahee
Oh what a slippery slope this one is. Let me start off with the premise my wife and I are strong believers in the eugenics movement. We believe that differing groups should not create offspring with the potential for handicaps and disease. We both believe that any two bloodlines that are carriers of any disease that is handed down should not procreate together. Other groups that place a societal burden on the whole should also have births controlled. Its that simple. We go to great efforts to breed the best animals of all species in our care, and then think not one iota of our own specie.

Well aren't you a nice person...

Yip Two lines...

Well, if it comes to that. I think we could just lay the bare facts out on the table and ask for volunteers. I for one would volunteer because in a world where people have to get killed for comfortable living of others is to stupid to survive anyway so why bother? I think you could get 10/20% of this ball of mud by just getting it on the air.

[edit on 12-8-2008 by Harman]

I'm going to skip the flaming and jump to answer my opinion of the OP:


Those who MADE the space, and collected, grew or hunted for the life-sustaining resources should live. Those who are allowed into the fold because of skills they posess that are traded for life-sustaining sustenance should live as well.

It's a hard thing to say, and a simple equation.

You've made some very interesting points. Thanks for chiming in.

I like justamomma's idea that we ought to let nature control our population by ceasing to interfere with her designs. Natural selection worked just fine for millions of years. Who are we to try and change things?

Thanks to I3Lip for helping to rephrase my original question. I certainly don't want people to think I'm some sort of Nazi who is advocating a 21st century holocaust.

I agree with some of the groups Scorched Earth suggested should be high on the list for sacrifice - especially peoples of lower intelligence, the retarded and practicioners of religions that forbit birth control. I realize we can't get rid of all believers, since that would mean eliminating a sizeable majority of the world's population, but why not start with those who hold the most primitive beliefs?

I also think there's some intelligence in Illahe's arguments in favor of eugenics. Clearly, as we've seen in the history of domesticated animal breeding, there is something to be said for careful selection of parents. Why should the human animal be any different? Of course, it's a matter of personal opinion and taste which characteristics ought to be encouraged and which should be bred out of existence, and that's what this thread is really about.

Finally, Harman's suggestion that we could ask for volunteers makes a lot of sense. I've always thought that suicide served a definite positive purpose in the world, by weeding out mentally unstable people and helping to keep them from reproducing. Also, it's a luxury to be able to end one's own life if it is a source of misery. Not all animals can end their suffering so easily.

i heard a saying once, cant remember where i saw it or who said it.

"I dont believe in Capital Punnishment, i believe we should just remove all the warning labels and let things sort themselves out"

i agree with that statement whole heartedly

If by then all of the world is developed and living equitably, with good economies and well looked after citizens, which is the only goal imaginable and is the very reason for most peoples activism, then world births will decline on their own. Canada has less than 0% population growth. Work for social justice, and raised status of all peoples around the world. Its the only answer. And anything else will be met with massive opposition.

[edit on 16-8-2008 by mystiq]

There would be so much survival instinct switched on in an instant upon the realization you are probably on the chopping block, nobody would be left. Other than that? Suicide or self imposed exile for me. I've never had any "skills" anyone has ever considered to be worth anything, never been held upwards for any of the intelligence I possess, been stamped down by everyone and everything and endured attempts to turn me into a drugged up drone since pretty much day one. It wouldn't change. I also have somebody I love very very much and in the end I want to be with her and only her. If I can't? Bye bye to me. If it's your fault I can't? Bye bye to all of you. Oh well. Who cares.

[edit on 16-8-2008 by Orion Crystal Ice]

Just evoke and encourage mass suicide by talking about Nibiru or other good earthy doomy topics or aliens or something.

Leonard McCoy: Go? Where are we going?
James T. Kirk: Where they went.
Leonard McCoy: Suppose they went nowhere?
James T. Kirk: Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all.

Well people aren't living all over the earth.
We could just build up cities in the 3rd world and make them live able, with all the surplus money there is.
But someone genuine and thats pure of heart will have to hold office for something like that....so...guess i should keep dreaming...

Well if we eliminate everyone who has a genetic disease, issue or weak trait then we may as well all sacrifice ourselves. I think everyone has something in their gene pool that is undesireable whether it be heart disease or allergies.

I just think that if we were ever in danger of this happening, we would begin to impose a one or two child limit law. After two children, the tubes get tied and the vas deferense gets snipped.