Dude takes Discovery Channel hostage for promoting human procreation

[Prowler]

He was too much of a radical and quite insane so no big loss. But I agree that he did have a point. Just look at how insane is the population density in Asia. And not to mention that 4 billion people live there.

On the other hand, Europe and Japan have been facing a decline in births in the past years, Italy and Spain used to have two of highest fertility rates in Europe and now they have some of the lowest, seems that Catholics finally embraced condoms so I have no idea why the heck their Church hasn't embraced them yet.

The Japanese might go extinct this century, they don't want to have children and don't want immigrants in their country.

The world lacks balance. The problem is the lack of education and extreme poverty in most of Africa, many places in Asia and some in Central/South America.

As for your forced sterilization ideas, I don't think they'd work when put into practice. If many countries Governments started sterilizing newborn babies it would be very costly and I'm sure the vast majority of their parents wouldn't aprove. There are even people who don't aprove the housebreaking of pets, let alone consider the housebreaking of their kids.

So, I think that the best solution would be for most Governments of poor countries to do
something similar to what China used to do, 1 child per couple. Of course that would be complicated due to religious beliefs of many of those countries, they'd have to be secularized first before attempting this.

As for Homossexuality, I think that it might be Nature's way of balancing the world's population, too bad that the Governments of some African and Asian countries haven't realized this yet and prefer locking them up or even execute them.

[Leo656]

Thankfully, statistics are coming out showing that people in America are in fact having fewer children, due to the recession. People are finally realizing that having kids you can't afford to raise ruins the lives of everyone involved. I'm sure residents of low-income areas will continue to pop out a half dozen welfare babies and then blame "the system" for keeping them poor, but at least it's a start.

Fewer people wasting their lives and money raising ungrateful kids that are destined to go to college and get addicted to coke and pills and turning out more worthless than their parents. Fewer ugly babies for me to have to look at. Seems win/win from my end.

But then again I'm of the opinion that EVERYONE should be sterilized at birth. Few things would give me more pleasure than watching the destruction of the human race once and for all play itself out, and to see it happen in my lifetime. Sigh... a man can dream, though.

[Charlotte_Sometimes]

Originally Posted by Prowler

As for Homossexuality, I think that it might be Nature's way of balancing the world's population.

That does make some sense, though homosexuality (as well as bisexuality) has existed in Nature way before even humans have existed.

[Katie]

I'm glad there's so many people here who don't want kids or want to have to apply for licences they'd never qualify for.....more room for mine when I have them. Hooray for the continuation of my and my guy's genepool!

The Discovery Channel guy was a nut job.