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Originally Posted by All Darc
But the planet no longer can hold a lot of people, population growing.
The city of Domes, in Logan's Run fictional fantasy, had a solution, killing people before they get old. This would avoit about colapse of the system, reduce costs, avoit dirty diapers and need of caretakers.
Also avoid back pain, reduce incidence of cellulits in women, prevents skin premature agging.
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We could also reduce the incidence of non-blue eyes and non-blonde hair. Why stop there!
I'm against suicide in principle, but am for the freedom to end your life if you consciously, deliberately, and voluntarily do so.
People have intrinsic value that extend beyond their ability to contribute economically. Better to carefully engineer genes that create the biggest problems for humanity than to eliminate the burdensome people. After all, 100% of us are burdensome at some point.
Regarding population; it isn't clear to me that the planet cannot hold this large population. All measures of well-being have gone up for humanity despite the growing population.
That isn't to say our numbers aren't without problems, or that it's necessarily good, but we're as well off as ever. The population is likely to decrease via less disastrous ways than those that loom ominously in our imagination.