Bruh, Giovanni isn't getting his ass outta bed at 1am to whip me up the drunkenness abolishing disaster that is a late night Domino's order, including all the extras of course I don't just want a pizza I want lava cake and bread sticks and cheesy bread and maybe a pasta bread bowl. I'll take a few bites of everything and pass out on the couch to wake up in the morning pleasantly surprised that drunk me was thoughtful enough to order us pizza for breakfast.
It was good information until you decided to be a dick at the end. I was going to thank you for a decent response but actually fuck you for deciding that I need a 3rd grade monster truck ad to understand it. That sort of elitism is a big part of the reason the stupid half of the country fucking hates the educated half.
But Idiocracy's point still stands, the most poorly educated in that scenario will be the ones to reproduce the most.
I don't think that there's a compelling argument against population control as the future looms, how it is implemented is what I think is up for debate.
I strongly believe in personal freedom, but in an overpopulated world, I'm not certain that freedom should extend to reproduction.
Here's where I get a little eugenic-y, and it feels icky, downvote if you must, but I'd prefer an intelligent reply. Why should a species, faced with the problem of overpopulation and gifted the power of sentience, not elevate it's best and suppresses it's worst? Maybe because I don't feel a personal drive to have kids, my partner isn't interested either, but it feels very selfish to think you personally have the right to add one more unregulated specimen to the petri dish.
Is it a huge turn away from what has made us human since forever? Yea, but wasn't the Internet? Internal combustion engines? I don't feel strongly enough about this to not be swayed in my ideas, but I just see it as a logical extension of a problem we face. What would Vulcans do?
Maine lost something like a third of its nurses to a vaccine mandate. Which is cute because medical staff, all the way down to janitorial (hi) get updated vaccines every year.
Scientists can be absolutely the biggest idiots. I worked maintenance in a laboratory and sometimes I was impressed somebody who can genotype plankton could also tie their own shoes.
I think CCW is a pretty good idea if this is already a reoccurring problem. Definitely don't plan on brandishing it, but the way you will feel while some asshole tries to degrade you is a special one. You also need to practice, regularly.
I don't see the solution in mass uprising in America, sadly. The ownership class has done such a thorough and successful job of dividing the working class, not even just left and right, but the people with a small vacation home and a boat thinking they're any closer to billionaires than I am working paycheck to paycheck. That false superiority and financial contentment will keep them from getting uncomfortable enough to join a movement, and keep stumping for the status quo that got them there. The rest of us, the bottom of the working class, are so split along ideological lines that I don't think we could ever cooperate. I certainly know that I would have to swallow bile to stand next to a MAGA that wanted to strip my wife of her rights.
Why do you have to jump right to the extreme? If you're looking for useful discourse, immediately shutting down what you seem to agree would be a good idea isn't helpful. I know plenty of gun nuts that would absolutely drop the hate of the Republicans if they knew their hobby was secured. It's easy to do simply because NOBODY IS ACTUALLY GOING TO COME FOR ANYBODY'S GUNS. Who's going to do it, cops? The guys that love guns? The military? It's just a lack of critical thinking and a little bit of reassurance might go a long way.
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Bruh, Giovanni isn't getting his ass outta bed at 1am to whip me up the drunkenness abolishing disaster that is a late night Domino's order, including all the extras of course I don't just want a pizza I want lava cake and bread sticks and cheesy bread and maybe a pasta bread bowl. I'll take a few bites of everything and pass out on the couch to wake up in the morning pleasantly surprised that drunk me was thoughtful enough to order us pizza for breakfast.