| 6 years ago :: Apr 09, 2012 - 10:43PM #71 | |
solfeggio
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I've never understood why the powers that be in America haven't gone over to socialised medicine at one time or another. Just about every other country in the industrialised West has it, and it works. And I've always wondered about all those pro-life people screaming about abortion. If abortion rights were taken away, and women had to carry unwanted babies to term, just how many of those pro-life people would actually volunteer to adopt those babies? I don't think the world has reached a leveling off period where population growth is concerned. If anything, it's growing faster than ever in countries like India, where the population continues to grow, with more than 50% of their population under the age of 25 years. And China's population is growing as well. Poverty, illiteracy, a high fertility rate, and a decline in mortality all push the populations of poor countries higher and higher. |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:20AM #72 | |
Erey
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Solph, As goes the west so goes the BRICS countries just a little behind. I am more than a little disturbed by all the hatred, judgement and vitrol shown here by so called tolerant liberals against people that dare to live a different kind of lifestyle. You talk at one minute without knowing more than two sentances about these people about how evil they are but you fail to see how dangerous you truly sound. I can totally see how people like the Nazis take over and exterminate millions of people they felt were somehow beneath them and did not have the correct beliefs. Of course the Nazis started out socialist, coincidence? I think not. |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:29AM #73 | |
arielg
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II don't think the world has reached a leveling off period where population growth is concerned. If anything, it's growing faster than ever in countries like India, where the population continues to grow, with more than 50% of their population under the age of 25 years.
India has had programs attempting to control natality for many years. I remember 20 or 30 years ago standing with a poor Indian family in front of a big sign advertising the merits of an ideal small family of father, mother and two children. You know what their comments were? "Poor people. Only two children. How sad!". It is very difficult to change ingrained customs and traditions. |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:43AM #74 | |
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rabello
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I don't see one statement of solfeggio's that claims any people on earth are "evil" and she doesn't sound "dangerous" at all. What exactly is "dangerous" about the post that has you so obsessed with, of all things, Nazi-ism? That is so inappropriate I did a double take.
Black Lives Matter
Muslim Lives Matter There is no such thing as "illegals" LGBT Lives Matter Poor Women's Lives Matter "If we jump too quickly to the universal formulation, 'all lives matter,' then we miss the fact that black people have not yet been included in the idea of 'all lives.'" --Professor Judith Butler |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:45AM #75 | |
mountain_man
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Oh, Antarctica has a lot of water. Anyone want to move there? I've been there. It's a beautiful place to visit.
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 3:41PM #76 | |
mainecaptain
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 5:11PM #77 | |
mytmouse57
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Sounds like my kind of place. Those sorts of conditions keep out yuppies wanting to build trophy homes. |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 5:20PM #78 | |
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mytmouse57
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Exactly. One couple having 19 kids isn't going to offset the culmative effect of hundreds of others having only one or two. I've also read that the population is leveling off, or at least the growth is slowing. |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 6:26PM #79 | |
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mountain_man
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Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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| 6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 6:31PM #80 | |
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