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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#41 - 2015-02-24 09:14:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Therefore, it is possible that the primal human emotion uncontrollable, irrational, tormenting, raging jealousy developed, to prevent most individuals from even having the mental faculties to make that altruistic decision.
Me, us and them, maybe?

I also found the following argument interesting (adapted heaily):
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There are three things to control populations famine, plague and war or if we are lucky, birth control.

Trying to improve food production, much like modern medicine only alleviates the problem for a short time but in the long term such solutions only continue to fuel the exploding popultations.
Sadly, eugenics has been heavily tar brushed along with genocide.

education. education also lowers birthrates.

Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Sometimes it is difficult to find the line between genius and insanity.

Genius is insanity with focus.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#42 - 2015-02-24 14:28:55 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
education. education also lowers birthrates..
I would say culture, class and resulting inhibitions. For example, the Amish aren't known for having tertiary educations but their religious restrictions, low tech deliveries and so forth all contribute to a lower successful birth rate.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#43 - 2015-02-25 02:09:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Well, you know, trilobites should have sterilized those mutants among them that eventually turned into fish-things that crawled onto the land. That would have nipped the whole weird-fish thing, into opposum-like-thing, into homo sapiens problem, right at the bud.

Who's to decide which condition ought to be weeded out? Evolution happens through mutations. That said, I'd kind of like to sterilize the last jerk who last cut me off in traffic. For the sake of humanity, please don't let that rude selfish jerk reproduce himself.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#44 - 2015-02-25 02:48:39 UTC
http://www.darwinawards.com/

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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#45 - 2015-02-25 02:54:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
Do we agree that of the routes to population delta, the conscious lifestyle decision to forego child rearing (before birth control) is the most noble (and probably the only ethical one to debate)...

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#46 - 2015-02-25 03:37:13 UTC
Quote:
There are three things to control populations famine, plague and war or if we are lucky, birth control.

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2015-02-25 03:42:56 UTC

Giving to another person gives my life meaning. I am perfectly alright being an evolutionary stub.

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Mildew Wolf
#48 - 2015-02-25 10:38:08 UTC
The big mistake was going multicellular. Single cell master race
Jenshae Chiroptera
#49 - 2015-02-25 15:19:28 UTC
Mildew Wolf wrote:
The big mistake was going multicellular. Single cell master race
The way various bacteria and viruses like influenza live on, I am inclined to agree. Lol

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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#50 - 2015-02-25 18:35:08 UTC
WTF are you all going on about this time ...I keep telling ya its all bollox ... ! sheesh !RollSmile
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#51 - 2015-02-26 01:11:18 UTC
This has nothing to do with overpopulation, selective evolution, or anything at all, but it's an incontrovertible truth: "You always find something in the last place you look." How true that is.

OK, carry on!
Jenshae Chiroptera
#52 - 2015-02-26 02:32:14 UTC
ShockedWhat?

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Badel Jramodarr
#53 - 2015-02-26 12:33:43 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
"You always find something in the last place you look."

Of course you do, why would you keep looking for it after you have already found it? Pirate

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#54 - 2015-02-26 14:16:54 UTC
Sometimes the blind hen finds the kernel and sometimes the mouse happy newbie opens the Linux kernel. P

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#55 - 2015-03-01 02:36:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
"I say to my daughters, 'If a man likes children and animals, he's a good man. That's the kind of person you want to marry."

"Take an example from your dog. You come home tired after a bad day, and he ripped up your trash and scattered it all around the yard. You get mad, and yell at him and kick your friend. Does he hold it against you? Does he want revenge? No, he comes back, feeling sorry, and knowing your feelings too. All of you guys listening, thing about that. You kick your friend, and he comes back trying to help you. If you want to do this work, you can start right there."

-The late Albert White Hat
Jenshae Chiroptera
#56 - 2015-03-01 02:45:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenshae Chiroptera
(Off the top of my head so not verbatim)
Winston Churchill wrote:
"Sir, you are drunk." - "Madam, you are ugly, the difference is tomorrow, I will be sober."
"Sir, if I were your wife, I would poison your tea." - "Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it."
"Nothing more exhilrating than being shot at and missed."
George Clemenceu wrote:
America; the only nation to go from barbarianism to decadences without a period of civilisation.
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Difference between Australia and yoghurt is that the latter develops a culture with time.
Much like how bacteria survive around the edges of a toilet, we have Australia with its people.
Agent Smith wrote:
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#57 - 2015-03-02 04:23:29 UTC
Some of Picard's speeches.

I wonder ... do we lack good Sci-Fi television because more fools have TVs or because we have already explored all the ideas open to us at this time?

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#58 - 2015-03-02 05:03:38 UTC

I really like the top rated comment in the YouTube video.

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Picard is one of the best characters ever created, as well as what Patrick Stewart did with it. He represents all that is noble about the human race. Free from bigotry, racism, and greed, with unbridled honesty.
It is the kind of man I would actually vote for to be president, it is unfortunate he is fictional.


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Jenshae Chiroptera
#59 - 2015-03-06 00:38:17 UTC
Paraphrased:
Birth control might be unnatural but so is the welfare state and without the former the latter will collapse.

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Ragnar Severasse
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#60 - 2015-03-06 00:42:08 UTC
I just discovered this thread. I'm not going to read the op because this **** is pretty humorous without context.