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- raybojabo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Thank Al Gore for this stupidity. Enjoy your tax deduction for dependents while it lasts, because it will be replaced with a carbon tax instead.
- akira185, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Thank you for making it clear you hate people so much you want to force them to not having children.
- Euangelion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Forever you have libs have been telling us the world is about to run out of oil/water/food/space/trees in "x" years.
- nippinawassee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not having children was the BIG thing back in the early 60s in the USA - the reason then was the fear of overpopulation and how everyone was going to starve.. They'd show the villages in Africa with children starving and in other 3rd world countries to emphasize the danger of having too many children...Well, the people who worked, were educated, had good jobs, had integrity, followed the guidelines and limited their children to 1 or 2 with a few having a bit more complied. But guess who was producing like rabbits? The ones who 1) didn't work 2) didn't plan to work 3) had no concept of how to set goals for children - how to encourage a good education, how to raise them to be productive, contributing members of society? and GUESS who pays for all of these single parent children? Why it's the ones who thought they were helping the 'planet' by not over producing children - the people who had the money, the brains, the integrity and drive to encourage their children to succeed in school, to excel in college, to BE SOMEONE... And all so those children could continue to financially support the offspring of the ones who were littering the country with one child after another, regardless of the fact they had no father present, regardless of the fact the mother had no means of support OTHER THAN GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
sO GO ahead and push this crazy idea of limiting your families and pretty soon there won't be any intelligent people around to support the deadbeats... - bluto36, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3so what are you going to do about it? i sure hope you are smarter than bacteria and don't have children. my seven kids say thanks!
oh and don't use any gasoline as my kids need it for their ATVs... they each have their own. - datatribe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Talk to a farmer in the US lately? Ever hear of farm subsidies? Don't take the voodoo scare talk from the population control freaks so seriously. We have excess food production capacity. It's not having more children that is the problem, it's wacky economic policies like farm subsidies, Al Gore's "carbon tax", etc. that make some parts of the world starve and others get portly. If we would just stop the nutty economics and let free market forces drive things food would be both plentiful and cheap. Oh, we'd have to make lobbying illegal somewhere along the line...
- datatribe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Uh... millions of people are dying already - and have since the beginning. It's what you do, see, when you are human and all. The planet can take a lot more than we can presently, or even in the near future, dish out.
Consider that global warming is making previous permafrost into arable land. Consider too that the ocean is a vast, uncolonized landscape beneath the waves.
All the FUD from the population control and enviro nut jobs pretty much turns a blind eye to the same thing they claim is the problem - human fortitude, inventiveness and creativity. Yes, technology has created some challenges, as has population growth, but challenges exist to inspire us. Where you see a withering planet, I see an as yet underutilized resource. Where you and your kind fret over using up the planet, me and my kind are already looking at ways to reclaim wastes, colonize the ocean, deserts, the moon... instead of being so defeatist you have already written the epitaph for the human race, why don't you try having a little optimism and, God forbid, positive creativity for once? - mapridham, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4St. Peter was challenged by the authorities in his day NOT to speak in the name of Jesus. "Who are we to obey, God or man"? And then went out preaching Jesus.
Children are a blessing from the Lord. "Blessed is he that has his 'quiver full'".
This counsel from the academic world shows once again the folly of man's wisdom. It is foolishness in the eyes of God. - Trublmakr, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I think it's safe to say that this is based on scientific research,.. not theology.
- Trublmakr, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1How do you know what's in the eyes of God? Does he hang out at your house? (Not that I'm not really friggin impressed with your preaching story and all,.... )
- Jagdhund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will you (and the rest of the right wing) stop calling Leftist Liberals! You do such a disservice to liberal thought like that. Socialists and those who believe in gov't power far over individual power are NOT liberal. Liberalism is thinking of and accepting new ideas, and embracing change. It may be naive at times but it is essential to the balance. We, as conservatives, need to have a respect for liberal thought, while doing our job of debating the new ideas in order to find the best ideas, and not change only for the sake of change.
Leftists are outside this balance, leftists are the worst kind of conservative in thought and deed. They stifle new ideas and censor opposition. They want big gov't and no personal responsibility. They are NOT liberal.
This 'stupidity' that you are responding to is not liberal thought. It is thoroughly leftist. - Gtoyn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The religion of Environmentalism is alive and well. Those of this religious group worship mother earth, they pay tithes to Greenpeace, Earth First or the Sierra Club. Their prophet is Al Gore. Their rites include becoming a vegan, and proselyte the gospel of animals as equals to humans. They are much to be feared as radical Islamists, and the extreme Christian right (those who protest at US service-men's funerals)
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Welcome to my block list, psycho.
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1We think we are so smart on Digg and just read the comments above, its ok Ill get dugg down but the truth
is people at Netscape are intelligent enough to realize over population is a bad idea:
http://family.netscape.com/story/2007/05/07/large-families-are-bad-for-planet
I guess diggers think God or Tom Cruise will come down and save us all? - Nevpat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Everytime I think liberals have reached the height of stupidity, they go and break the former record! Only an athiest would think this way! Only someone who thinks human existence is a mathmatical probability would believe such nonsense! When are we going to stop treating liberalism as a legitimate point of view! Liberalism is a mental disorder and a lot of liberals have many positions of power in our world which should scare the hell out of us all!
- LambertHeenan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The people on the "right to life" side of the debate are disingenuous, to say the least. The spout all day long about how sacred human life is (because their holy book tells them it is), but not a single one of them ever considers what is going to happen in just a few decades at most, when the planet just CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE. Millions and millions of people are going to die, and it's not going to be quick and painless. All because we these people are deluded into thinking there is no limit to the amount of growth that can be sustained.
- RSandman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Nope - the "extreme right" to which you are referring is generally abhorred in their public behavior by Christians directly because they are NOT acting as would Christ. Puhlease stop referring to Christian and Extreme Right as if they were the same. It is the left who generally make a conscious attempt to confuse the two in order to discredit Christianity.
Otherwise, you are Right on target. - datatribe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@rheaume - so, um, the breathing tax is cool with you then? Hope you don't work up a sweat on DDR.
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah 9 billion+ people on this ***** rock by 2050, great plan genius
- Jagdhund, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Statements like 'we should stop having children because we are destroying our planet' are only marginally true and usually are stated by doom and gloom fools. A better statement would be that having more children puts a greater strain on the limited resources that we share on planet earth. I know many 'humane' people would like us to kill ourselves off as a race in order to save the planet but that seems a little lame. No matter how much they continue to say that we shouldn't have children, there are those our there who are out-breeding the 'West'. Look up the statistics if you wish.
Personally I'll sooner destroy 95% of the population of the planet to make room for the progeny of my community than to stop having kids to satisfy the doom and gloom people. I suppose any rational human with survival instinct would do the same (and thus start a global war once resources become truly scarce). - dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I'd invest in some hardcore medications, they'll take the voices away.
- zebstephen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Who made them God, to even think that they can dictate who can be born. I know a few children that could have been postponed, the group that came out with this report. Maybe we wouldn't be arguing about this now.
- eagle22s, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1nevpat I agree with you
- Corvidae, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4World food supplies are being stretched to their limits and people are starving now. Higher populations only serves to create more pollution at this point.
Seriously only bacteria is dumb enough to pollute it's own environment to the point of killing itself.
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