Re: Sex Education Does it promote the natural human flow of life?
Oh, well, yes, of course, lots of children are wonderful, natural parts of human life... and if we weren't seeing too many people living without and too many others consuming too much, and if we didn't have issues with resources and pollution and war... sure, it would be great to procreate like crazy.
BUT... have you noticed that there are places where people are indeed starving? places where two (or more!) groups of people claim the right to live? places where the rising temperatures are making it harder (if not impossible) to continue inhabiting the area?
There may be ways to solve these problems other than restricting births, but we don't seem to be finding them fast enough, and more people living on this earth with the same unsolved problems hardly seems to be the solution.
Oh, I am quite sure there are far better alternatives than "limiting" births, and we could find and develop them quite a lot faster, were it much of a priority. I don't think people are consuming too much, near as much as some appear guilty of "conspicuous consumption," living just to use stuff up because they are rich, or "better than everybody else." Yack, yack, yack on the cellular phone, about pretty much nothing, while driving of course? Why can't people be found at home anymore? Did everybody have some party on Mars, and they didn't invite me? Where are all these people, that they are rarely found home when you call them or stop by?
And don't you think various groups of people can mix and interbreed? Oh, you must be talking of Muslims, they don't mix well, due to their false religion and fanaticism. Some are more tolerant, but some want to force false religion on everybody and corrupt the government and society. Many groups of people do tend to mix actually. Societies quite often are rather mixed these days, ethnically and also quite co-ed. I welcome high-density housing, but not as some "environmental" extremist way to keep people out of the "wild" places, but as a way to fit more people into less space, if or as they want, to keep their housing abundant and affordable enough for even the working poor. Let people live in houses, huge apartment complexes, skyscrapers, city, countryside, as they would choose.
I often speak about the injustice of greedy unaccountable corporations, and how economies are supposed to work for everybody and not just the elite few.
Rising temperature? Refer to that "global warming" fraud thread around here somewhere? Global warming is about the most incredibly weak theory I can imagine. There can't prove there is any global warming, they can't prove that it is significant, they can't prove that humans are the cause, they can't prove that the effects will be dire, nor can they prove that we can do anything to "fix" it. One of the best theories, is that it most closely correlates to activity of the sun, and something similar is effecting Mars. Does it matter what the cause is? Technically no, but actually, yes. Because if it can't be so easily blamed on man, then more likely, radical non-solutions won't be seen as likely "fixing" it. If it's just natural cycles or natural, or within nature's ability to cope, or whatever, then how do we imagine that any change in human activities can "correct" it?
I was glad to hear, for a refreshing change, a news story about "zone creep." They claim, due to "warming," that gardeners are delighted that they can grow crops where they live, that supposedly can grow in a slightly warmer part of the world. Notice how people cluster near the equator and away from the poles of the planet. People prefer it warmer. I have a far better theory that I really wish people would consider.
What if, somehow, perhaps due to the increasingly "huge" size of the world population, nature was "warming up" to us, and encouraging us to multiply all the more? For I see people as not having a "parasitic" relationship with nature, as the enviro-wackos too often opine, but more a symbiotic relationship. Therefore, adding more people, alters nature to more favor there being more people. Sort of like a runaway "vicious circle" in the morally positive sense, win-win for everybody. The more populated we get, the better we get at supporting huge populations.
Advocating more births, at least helps focus people in the right direction, towards accomodating the already huge population better, already here, rather than finding excessive excuses to be divided and working against one another. And besides, as I read somewhere, reproducing is one of the few things, that most people actually do well. So don't take that away from them!
