[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('teotwawki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rior to condoms and contraceptives people had natural unprotected sex all the time and yet the population never exploded like it did until in modern times. This is due to there being more food (agricultural revolution), much higher standards of living (in part thanks to technology and computing) and also better medicine and health-care practices.

[americandream]

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Using the same arguments that capitalism is better than communism or socialism, one can see that pure capitalism is a self-similar subset of evolution itself. The reason "capitalism" has triumphed over communism/socialism is an evolutionary one. The "invisible hand of adam smith" might as well be called "natural selection"..

I think you are correct to say that as resources continue to dwindle there will be placed upon us all these structural bounds that will naturally constrain and cap our options on all levels. When couples can no longer afford to have children, they don't need an artificial "law" or mandate prohibiting them from doing so.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('teotwawki', '
')... Our ability to have distinct categorical-perception thresholds of qualitative experiential phenomenon is what gives way to the need and compulsion to adopt the use of something akin to a Lexical Hypothesis in terms of creating labels and their resultant definitional boundaries. While language exists as a means of convenient placeholder and pointer to internal subjective neural-correlates-of-consciousness, it is nonetheless a reductive and inherently translative approach that cannot possibly yield direct mappings to the 'real world'.. Categorization is cognition, we see repeated phenomenon and enough instances to sort out a pattern, then put a label to it.. the only problem is when you try to work backwards and assume that empirical reality itself could also conform to such inaccurate labellings and boundaries.

[SeaGypsy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('teotwawki', '['). When couples can no longer afford to have children, they don't need an artificial "law" or mandate prohibiting them from doing so. When old people find out their IRA/401K/Pension funds/etc was just fictitious monies and never actually existed (in terms of resources allocated to back up those valuations) in the first place, and they can't afford health-care, the problem will largely take care of itself.

. ...And this is perhaps by TPTB appears to have its head in the sand and not taking any real action. Perhaps they feel in due time mother nature and evolutionary forces and demand destruction will best "optimize" the shutdown.....