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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:23 am
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I think that a lot of the inter-societal problems regarding children, babies, and the new generation, has to do with our separation as a species from the animals we once were. Overpopulation, the hunger crisis, and now the environment and the economy are, I believe, signs that technology has come between humanity and the natural world. I think that shaken babies are, honestly, a method of rooting out the weak and controlling the population. It happens less and less because more and more people think they have the capacity to parent when they don't, and so they ********, have children, and raise douche-bombs... I believe.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:46 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:39 am
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:02 pm
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Oh, well. Although parents don't shake their infants to death much anymore, I assure you there are still plenty of ways that adults ensure the population explosion won't include their children. It's sort of a sad permutation of the Darwin Awards - ensuring that weak genes don't get passed on by killing your own children. I'll have to go hunting for old links, but I recall there was a mother who got drunk and put her month-old infant in the microwave, and some guy who put his two-year-old into the dryer to dry her off although I believe she survived.
Personally, I think bratty children need parents who will actually tell them "No" when they're younger - I mean, if you don't tell little Johnny, "Johnny, you don't do that," when he's too young to know better, how is he supposed to learn that it's not okay to do that?
Shaking them to death as infants, to my eyes, is a clearer indicator of the fact that the parent isn't ready to be a parent than the future brattiness of the child - although I also feel that these things are intertwined. I think that an adult who isn't ready to be a parent will have difficulty raising their child, and may end up with a total brat or a terrified wallflower depending on temperament. This is just my opinion, though (I feel the need to stress that), as I don't personally know a lot of parents who had children before they were ready.
As a note, 'ready' doesn't mean financially or age-wise. I mean it in an emotional sense. There are teenagers who make great parents, just like there are thirty-somethings in a perfectly stable life who don't. And, yes, sometimes the kid is just naturally infuriating. Sometimes they can have the best parents in the world and the kid still turns out awful. That is the luck of the draw, and it sort of sucks for all concerned.
But as I said, thasjusme.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:07 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:34 am
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Actually, not only do I realize that, I agree with you. People are too quick to call things a crisis. Not to mention that the failure to take into account the immigration and it's ties to the population explosion, plus our habit of buying imports is the basics of what's ******** the American economy so badly.
I used links referring to the US because I'm an American, so I can see how they may not be relevant to you or anyone outside the US, but I really believe that the problem lies deeper. The US has ******** itself already, but I believe that technology has afforded humans the opportunity to do what they're currently doing - breed faster than they die out.
Look at countries like China and India, who have passed laws to regulate how frequently and how much humans reproduce because they're so crowded.
Yeah, Dr. NutBar is a concern (see bears/particle accelerator comment,) but I think he's got a point. There are way too many people alive right now, and the planet will soon have trouble containing us... Like water overflowing from a cup, we are rising too high, too fast. I personally believe that diseases such as cancer and AIDS are the planet's defense against us. I think that the reason we're having such widespread outbreaks and with such difficult-to-cure, diverse diseases is because it's population control. No other animal population has been allowed to expand the way ours has. I think that the environmental crisis is a natural cycle that we've exacerbated, and that humanity is ******** with the planet's natural ecological rhythms.
In fact, now that the economy has begun to decay in the US, I'm just waiting for there to be a huge epidemic amongst those who have lost their homes and whatnot. I'm certain that these various "crises" are the backlash from our inconsideration. Look at every other animal population - look at dinosaurs. As soon as it came to be that the planet was populated with nothing but dinosaurs, a meteor punched the s**t out of earth and made a "nuclear winter" cloud cover that killed all but, like, two or three kinds of dinosaurs.
I realize that I sound like one of those "repent! We are all damned! The end is nigh!" retards, but it's my honest opinion. This is a serious topic to me, and I don't want to be hurtful while discussing it.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:51 am
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I just didn't want people being all like "Well that's only the states". Of course it is because that's what we're talking about, thats all.
The Doc, has a point but the solution isn't making a virus that will wipe out everyone, because airborne viruses are hard to stop! You used a cup of water as an example, and it solves it's own problem. When the cup is too full, it overflows getting rid of the excess water, so will the world. It did it with the Black plague and it can do it again. Maybe it'll be an airborne virus maybe it'll be a STD, I honestly believe it would be an STD because lets face it, people, as a whole, ******** like rabbits!
Another thing no one is thinking about is water. We can build flotation devices on the water, making whatever fertile land usable for food. Or we could use the flotation devices for food. Could you imagine how many more people we would be able to support if we used the water's surface? We would just have to be careful not to use too much of it because of the plant life underneath. They still need sun. We might maybe be able to come up with a way to create UV for underneath these devices though...
I'm just full of ideas.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:15 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:14 am
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