Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Stephen, I may have misread your post but I thought you were agreeing to what Bart posted up-page where he said:
I’ll also argue that those people who do have big families are doing some harm to our planet – less harm than any merchant banker but more harm than a family of 2 or 3 children
I'm not questioning whether we:
can just carry on digging up, pumping out, etc., forever?
because I agree that we can't.
But in a thread about families, which moved into a discussion about some parents having too many children, and who should pay for that etc., I read your comment as another suggestion that the few families here that have more than 2 or 3 childer have single-handedly (well, I suppose it takes two) ruined the planet.
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do all of you really think that humanity can just carry on digging up, pumping out, etc., forever?
And the best way to stop this from happening is preventing people from having more than the officially sanctioned number of children? Really?
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I’ll also argue that those people who do have big families are doing some harm to our planet – less harm than any merchant banker but more harm than a family of 2 or 3 children
So a family with no children would be even better for the planet? Or maybe we should all kill ourselves to achieve the best outcome for the planet?
This accounting is just so stupid! Maybe we could see children as something other than a liability or a cost to society.
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Sasha, I don't believe you are talking about eugenics, but using arguments based in biology as some justification one way or another with regards to reproductive rights makes me and, it would seem, others very uncomfortable.
To step back for a moment, I have to agree with Danielle:
Funnily enough, I am finding it hugely difficult to give the merest smidge of a fuck about this heinous breeding-n-rorting problem.
I don't think this is a real problem we need to deal with.
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Why would any particular family need to have 8 children in this day and age when they're all likely to survive into adulthood?
WTH kind of a question is that?
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Hmmm.
Hardened to sarcasm that I am, I was waiting for the punchline in that statement. You know, like “HAHAHAHAHAH NOOT!! GOOD ONE!”.
But there wasn’t one. It was, like, serious. Heh
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Remember your English, people: woman (singular) - women (plural)
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How this fury expresses itself may vary, but I was more referring to the fact that they are at opposite ends of what they are angry about.
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I think it's interesting to note that the fury the Tea Party brings to the, umm, party is similar, but completely opposite to what the protests and strikes in France are about.
Europe and the US really are very different places.
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Oh, it's a badge of honour. Always.
Oh, you and your lofty condension (sic).